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Building unified documentation for the web
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Browsers are always exploring new directions. This independent experimentation has enabled the web to evolve to meet new use cases, but it also means that keeping up with how the web is changing can be difficult. Browsers maintain documentation for their features and APIs, but cross-browser documentation is often fragmented across several sources. One of Chrome’s top priorities is making it easier to build sites that work in all browsers, and simplifying web documentation is a key part of that effort.
Today, web documentation is taking a big step towards a unified source.
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs
is announcing a new product advisory board, which includes founding members from
Mozilla
, Google,
Microsoft
, Samsung, and several others from the web standards and development communities. The product advisory board will review and provide feedback on the direction of MDN’s web documentation going forward.
For the last several years, Chrome has been transitioning its web documentation efforts to MDN, allowing us to combine our documentation efforts with many open source contributors like Mozilla. The product advisory board is another step towards making MDN the best source of up-to-date, comprehensive documentation on the web and aligns closely with our goal to make it easier to build for the web as a whole. As part of this effort, we’re also
investing in interoperability tests for the web
, which allows browsers to share tests and compare the compatibility of their features. We’re also building new infrastructure to help browser developers find bugs and missing APIs between implementations.
Check out MDN Web Docs as the centralized source of web API documentation. And look out for more information on how we’re working to make the web an even easier platform to build on.
Posted by Dru Knox, Product Manager
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