It is a reference to the closing lines of Middlemarch: "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that…
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking about, but if it's our use of `var` in code examples, we had a big project this summer to eradicate `var` in favour of `const` and `let`. This started out as a project for the…
This came up the other day, actually! https://github.com/orgs/mdn/discussions/256#discussioncommen... :)
Sorry, I didn't intend to misrepresent, but yes, there is a fuller story here of course. Before 2020, MDN was in a Wiki and editors could use a WYSIWYG interface, which was OK for relatively simple edits although for…
Thanks @vedranm! I especially like your side-by-side comparison of the process of contributing using Markdown versus reST. It really encapsulates the difference that reasonably seamless tool support makes. I need to…
I agree. We are always trying to improve this but it's a huge task as MDN is such a big site. If you could please file issues (or PRs :) when you find bad practice examples, it would help.
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
> Elsewhere in this thread is a link to a separate organization called "OpenWebDocs," which appears to be an outside consortium that contributes to MDN. Yes, that's what Open Web Docs is. It's funded by individual and…
We're working on this... https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data, https://github.com/mdn/data ...but it's going to be a slow process.
How to check: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Testing.
There's some interesting talk about that in mozilla.dev.platform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...
It is a reference to the closing lines of Middlemarch: "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that…
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking about, but if it's our use of `var` in code examples, we had a big project this summer to eradicate `var` in favour of `const` and `let`. This started out as a project for the…
This came up the other day, actually! https://github.com/orgs/mdn/discussions/256#discussioncommen... :)
Sorry, I didn't intend to misrepresent, but yes, there is a fuller story here of course. Before 2020, MDN was in a Wiki and editors could use a WYSIWYG interface, which was OK for relatively simple edits although for…
Thanks @vedranm! I especially like your side-by-side comparison of the process of contributing using Markdown versus reST. It really encapsulates the difference that reasonably seamless tool support makes. I need to…
I agree. We are always trying to improve this but it's a huge task as MDN is such a big site. If you could please file issues (or PRs :) when you find bad practice examples, it would help.
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
> Elsewhere in this thread is a link to a separate organization called "OpenWebDocs," which appears to be an outside consortium that contributes to MDN. Yes, that's what Open Web Docs is. It's funded by individual and…
We're working on this... https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data, https://github.com/mdn/data ...but it's going to be a slow process.
How to check: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Testing.
There's some interesting talk about that in mozilla.dev.platform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...