Mozilla Foundation reaches an agreement with AOL on DevEdge content (MozillaZine)

[Posted February 24, 2005 by cook]

MozillaZine covers an agreement between the Mozilla Foundation and AOL. "Mozilla Foundation has reached an agreement with America Online, which allows them to host and improve former Netscape DevEdge Content. Mitchell Baker posted a blog entry informing that Deb Richardson would join Mozilla Foundation as a technical editor and project manager of DevMo. DevMo is the new community based project focussed on developer documentation and resources."

Badly needed

Posted Feb 25, 2005 4:37 UTC (Fri) by b7j0c (guest, #27559) [Link] (2 responses)

One thing the mozilla folks do not have is good docs.

Badly needed

Posted Feb 25, 2005 6:34 UTC (Fri) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] (1 responses)

In fact this is more important than that. The DevEdge articles were THE source of information and reference for especially JavaScript, but also CSS and most other browser-related techniques. That AOL simply shut the whole site down must have come as a shock to many and left many developers out in the dark. No matter who hosts the documentation, it is very good it is back.

Badly needed

Posted Feb 25, 2005 16:31 UTC (Fri) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]

In fact, it's even more important than that. As long as Microsoft's MSDN documents are easily found by searchers, Microsoft's retarded markup will be the supposed standard. Putting real, standards-based documents out there is an important job. And even just conflicting with Microsoft's documentation will be an important service; it should cause the intelligent reader to think "Hrmm, what's going on here? I'd better dig into this," which I think will favor the standard implementations over Microsoft's.