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…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562996 > initial-scale=1.0 is not useless [1] [1] https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/45570

comment by justin-reeves · 2026-09-25 · in Initial-scale no longer needed

Which was premature because most people have missed that initial-scale doesn’t actually default to 1: https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/45570

comment by chrismorgan · 2026-09-09 · in Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

…was removed from the MDN recommendation only a few days ago... by the submitted article author! https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/45479

comment by lapcat · 2026-09-08 · in Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

…transparent` on top of that. It seemed like a pattern (lazy) develoers would follow more likely [1] https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/2638 Made some research while suggesting to promote better approach and point to caveats in the…

comment by myfonj · 2026-08-12 · in CSS properties you should know for better text designs

…the same time, OS X didn't support them at all. It was a messy time, but has since changed. [0] [0] https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/32969

comment by shakna · 2026-06-11 · in Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

…others to understand the history of this (which apparently Stripe, Paypal, Dwolla, and others use): https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/41497 There are links to the RFC and prior art. That aside, my first impulse is to say that the…

comment by randallsquared · 2026-05-10 · in Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

…and in fact does include an example with fallback sizes. My apologies to the mdn authors – https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/43684

comment by keane · 2026-04-24 · in The end of responsive images

…you for being very generous with your time and expertise. I've reported this as a bug in the data ( https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/41455 ), and manually overridden the data for now as a workaround. > Personally, I would remove all…

comment by CharlesW · 2025-10-09 · in PWA Browser Scorecards

…The <applet> element has been removed (Firefox bug 1279218). Also see https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/26850 which removed MDN docs for the element a couple years back, citing removals from major browsers. <font> and <framese

comment by vitus · 2025-08-22 · in XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites

…these files in mind, but we'll never know. It reminds me of another shallow dismissal by Mozilla: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36294 https://webreflection.medium.com/mdn-doesnt-trust-you-should...

comment by benatkin · 2025-08-20 · in Pixel 10 Phones

…for this page using the link below? It helps us track and prioritize updates more effectively: https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/new?template=page-repo... We actively monitor feedback on GitHub, so if you have more detailed suggestions…

comment by snorlaxmorlax · 2025-07-28 · in Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

…You can always view the source and track changes on our GitHub repository for content. https://github.com/mdn/content

comment by snorlaxmorlax · 2025-07-28 · in Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

Thanks for sharing. The best place to raise issues now is the content repo: https://github.com/mdn/content

comment by bsmth · 2025-07-25 · in Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

…with the folks maintaining a specific area of the docs. We’d love to have you involved again! ¹ https://github.com/mdn/content ² https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/new/choose

comment by snorlaxmorlax · 2025-07-25 · in Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

The code is open, it's easy to check who's contributing what: https://github.com/mdn/content/pulse/monthly tl;dr: a slight majority of the recent top contributors do not appear to be Mozilla employees: I'm seeing Yale, several freelancers…

comment by homebrewer · 2025-07-25 · in Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

…the SameSite initiative? I actually added that little paragraph to the MDN CORS article in 2022 ( https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/20922 ) to clarify where the term “simple request” from CORS came from, since previously the article only…

comment by yonran · 2025-03-03 · in Why do we have both CSRF protection and CORS?

100% agree. This is their contributions: https://github.com/mdn/content/commits?author=WebReflection+ Not seeing them as a major contributor.

comment by cowsandmilk · 2024-12-25 · in A new learning experience on MDN

> A long time contributor gave up. https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36294 Reading through that issue MDN was almost definitely in the right. Also calling them a long time contributor might be a bit off, from what I can see they did one…

comment by SahAssar · 2024-12-25 · in A new learning experience on MDN

…field. I might be missing something here though which puts the MDN team in the wrong, but... [1] https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36294#issuecomment-24076...

comment by squigz · 2024-12-25 · in A new learning experience on MDN

…is also showing cracks, due to the recent changes at Mozilla. A long time contributor gave up. https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36294

comment by benatkin · 2024-12-25 · in A new learning experience on MDN

Which seems to simply add <dialog> to the docs for the `cancel` event https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/d2421d25d1676cc11b01cc... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLDialogE... (<dialog> has been around for a decade)

comment by cantSpellSober · 2024-12-06 · in <dialog>: The Dialog Element

The MDN PR documenting the optional `context` parameter was merged just 2 weeks ago: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/32697/files

comment by js2 · 2024-04-03 · in What even is a JSON number?

…I can tell from the issue. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... [2] https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/31098

comment by fadymak · 2024-01-04 · in Show HN: Imgsrc – Generate Beautiful Open Graph Images

…And it sometimes takes months to get things fixed (after reporting or providing PR at https://github.com/mdn/content ). I've learned to always test myself when it comes to pesky/obscure behavior(s) of JS.

comment by thrdbndndn · 2023-07-20 · in MDN Playground

…also works on information architecture and browser compatibility data. They contribute mainly to https://github.com/mdn/content/ and https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/ . Mozilla, not OWD, is responsible for Yari, the platform…

comment by msum · 2023-07-02 · in MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information

…down the Git history where the phrase "essentially a buzzword" was introduced in this pull request: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/5116/files#diff-7cfca62e... I agree that it's unnecessarily dismissive.

comment by lioeters · 2023-04-23 · in I just learned about HTML redirects (2020)

…filed a PR to make the docs clearer [0] so neither of us has to waste any more time on this. [0] https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/25925

comment by LegionMammal978 · 2023-04-05 · in Safari releases are development hell

It is already there. https://github.com/mdn/content

comment by maxloh · 2022-11-05 · in MDN converted to Markdown

You can grab the full repo with the content here: https://github.com/mdn/content

comment by cellshade · 2022-03-24 · in MDN Plus

…tell whether a given code snippet is licensed under CC0 or MIT. Good luck using code from MDN. [0]: https://github.com/mdn/content/discussions/5901

comment by maxloh · 2022-03-18 · in Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN

…but I can honestly not see why there should be a desperate need. The content of MDN is open at https://github.com/mdn/content , currently a mix of HTML and Markdown but getting transitioned to Markdown. So a different effort could perhaps…

comment by jug · 2022-03-18 · in Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN

In fact all the docs are on github. You don't even need to get to MDN site to access them. https://github.com/mdn/content/tree/main/files/en-us

comment by irvinfly · 2022-03-17 · in Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN

…now, one has no way to tell whether a given code snippet in MDN is licensed under CC0 or MIT. [0]: https://github.com/mdn/content/discussions/5901

comment by maxloh · 2022-03-01 · in MDN Redesign

…now, one has no way to tell whether a given code snippet in MDN is licensed under CC0 or MIT. [0]: https://github.com/mdn/content/discussions/5901

comment by maxloh · 2022-03-01 · in MDN Web Docs Redesign

I just filed this issue on the MDN page: https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/11763 That note is misleading.

comment by hildjj · 2022-01-05 · in Flatten Arrays in Vanilla JavaScript with Flat() and FlatMap()

Thanks! Added a PR to the docs: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/4757

comment by franciscop · 2021-05-06 · in HTML Sanitizer API

…MDN where every article is just a file on Git. For example, the source for this article is here: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/webasse... You can find the link to the source of any article at the bottom of the page.

comment by breck · 2021-02-28 · in WebAssembly

…and all code snippets are either CC0 or, for snippets over a decade old, MIT. And it's all in Git: https://github.com/mdn/content So if the Web as a whole ever completely loses faith in Mozilla's ability to sustain the MDN platform, all of…

comment by callahad · 2021-01-26 · in Introducing Open Web Docs

https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/LICENSE.md and the attributions for the English docs are in https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/_wikihi...

comment by escattone · 2020-12-16 · in Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform

…has at least two sides. Check out some of the amazing PRs people have been able to do recently on https://github.com/mdn/content/pulls Being able to do scripts or grep + sed or other advances bulk edits is really cool. E.g.…

comment by peterbe · 2020-12-15 · in Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform

https://github.com/mdn/content/blame/53ba7ccaf34f639208791a9... Isn't your entire article here? The history is there...

comment by roblabla · 2020-12-15 · in Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform

…I have contributed. Compare: https://web.archive.org/web/20200113175409/https://developer... To: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/sec... Where has all the content gone? And of course there's no history anymore due…

comment by lol768 · 2020-12-15 · in Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform