wbamberg

3 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by wbamberg 3y ago

   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 things are not so il
2. 2.▲
   by wbamberg 4y ago

   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 Writing D
3. 3.▲
   by wbamberg 4y ago

   This came up the other day, actually! https://github.com/orgs/mdn/discussions/256#discussioncommen... :)
4. 4.▲
   by wbamberg 4y ago

   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 more involved stuf
5. 5.▲
   by wbamberg 4y ago

   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 look more into MkDocs...
6. 6.▲
   by wbamberg 4y ago

   Last year we changed the source format for MDN from some extremely messy, WYSIWYG-authored HTML to something that would be easier for authors to use. We considered Asciidoc and reST, and despite its limitations, we chose Markdown (GFM speci
7. 7.▲
   by wbamberg 5y ago

   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.
8. 8.▲
   by wbamberg 5y ago

   "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."
9. 9.▲
   by wbamberg 5y ago

   > 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
10. 10.▲
    by wbamberg 9y ago

    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.
11. 11.▲
    by wbamberg 10y ago

    How to check: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Testing .
12. 12.▲
    by wbamberg 11y ago

    There's some interesting talk about that in mozilla.dev.platform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...