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Revamp of MDN Web Docs Contribution Docs

The MDN Web Docs team recently undertook a project to revamp and reorganize the “Contribution Docs”. These are all the pages on MDN that describe what's what – the templates and page structures, how to perform a task on MDN, how to contribute to MDN, and the community guidelines to follow while contributing to this massive open source project. The post Revamp of MDN Web Docs Contribution Docs appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

Posted by on 2022-10-31

Improving Firefox responsiveness on macOS

Improving Firefox responsiveness on macOS

If you're running Firefox on macOS you might have noticed that its responsiveness has improved significantly in version 103, especially if you've got a lot of tabs, or when your machine is busy running other applications at the same time. This improvement was achieved via a small change in how locking is implemented within Firefox's memory allocator. The post Improving Firefox responsiveness on macOS appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

Posted by on 2022-10-10

The 100% Markdown Expedition

The 100% Markdown Expedition

In June 2021, we decided to start converting the source code for MDN web docs from HTML into a format that would be easier for us to work with. The goal was to get 100% of our manually-written documentation converted to Markdown, and we really had a mountain of source code to climb for this particular expedition. In this post, we’ll describe why we decided to migrate to Markdown, and the steps you can take that will help us on our mission. The post The 100% Markdown Expedition appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

Posted by on 2022-09-08

Merging two GitHub repositories without losing commit history

Merging two GitHub repositories without losing commit history

How do you merge two Git repositories without losing history? This post will take you through the step-by-step process. The post Merging two GitHub repositories without losing commit history appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

Posted by on 2022-08-29

Neural Machine Translation Engine for Firefox Translations add-on

Neural Machine Translation Engine for Firefox Translations add-on

Firefox Translations is a website translation add-on that provides an automated translation of web content. In this article, we will discuss the technical challenges around the development of the translation engine and how we solved them to build a usable Firefox Translations add-on. The post Neural Machine Translation Engine for Firefox Translations add-on appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

Posted by on 2022-06-29

The JavaScript Specification has a New License

As part of our work to ensure a free and open web, we've been working together with Ecma International, and many partners to write a License inspired by the W3C Document and Software License. Our goal was that JavaScript’s status would align with other specifications of the Web. In addition, with this new license available to all TCs at Ecma International, this will provide other organizations to approach standardization with the same perspective. The post The JavaScript Specification has a New License appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

Posted by on 2022-06-27

Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes – Part 2

Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes – Part 2

For the last year, we've been working on the development of rust-minidump, a pure-Rust replacement for the minidump-processing half of google-breakpad. The final part in this series takes you through fuzzing rust-minidump. The post Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes – Part 2 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

Posted by on 2022-06-23

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