New JavaScript Docs from MSDN!
Let’s face it, a site for Web documentation that doesn’t have solid JavaScript docs is like a browser that doesn’t have JavaScript. Up to now, the JavaScript topic on Web Platform Docs has been...
View ArticleWeb Platform Docs API used in Brackets
A basic goal of WebPlatform.org is to be the site where you can come for answers to your trickiest (and simplest) development and design questions about the Open Web Platform. Along with being a site,...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesdays
Documenting the web, even just client-side technologies, is an enormous undertaking. We can’t do it alone, and we can’t do it all at once. We want to send a clear signal to the web developer community...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesdays: Week 2!
Last week’s Web Platform Wednesday was a rousing success! Our community looked at all of the target property pages, and you reviewed and completed most of the ones we lined up. So this week, we start...
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Web Platform Wednesdays, Week 3: Texting!
You shouldn’t text while driving, but you should text while designing, and CSS3 puts the power in your hands to text with style! This week’s Web Platform Wednesday focuses on the properties from two...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesdays, Week 4: Visual formatting
For Week Four of Web Platform Wednesday, we focus on the visual formatting model properties: margins, padding, width, height, position, float, clear, display, top, right, bottom, left, z-index,...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesdays, Week 6: Text Me!
It is that time of week again, time for Web Platform Wednesday! And this week’s theme is Text. This will see us focus on continuing to document the vast amount of CSS properties available for Text....
View ArticleInaugural Doc Sprint for Seattle, June 22!
Webplatform.org continues to grow in all facets: breadth of content, accuracy, community health, and site usefulness. It’s a testament to the vibrancy of our community that we now have almost twenty...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesday, Week 7: More text properties, shapes and exclusions
This week, we continue to work on text properties, but we’re adding some interesting properties. So if you know how to break out an experimental browser, and test the limits of features such as CSS...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesday, Week 8: Grid & Column Layout
These last few weeks of Web Platform Wednesday’s have proven to be even more successful than we could have imagined with many new community members creating Web Platform accounts and joining in to help...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesday, Week 9: Layout
Last week we decided to take a small break to give everyone a rest and let you enjoy the holidays, so this week we are coming back in full force to tackle the next batch of CSS properties. This week,...
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Web Platform Doc SprintAugust 28th 2013, Zurich, Switzerland!
Followers of the WebPlatform.org effort will remember that we ran our groundbreaking first European Web Platform Doc Sprint on February 8-9 in Berlin, Germany. This went down well, and a lot of good...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesday, Week 10: Animation & Masking
This week’s Web Platform Wednesday has a theme that every CSS geek will find exciting and many have been waiting for: Animations and Masking! CSS Animations need no introductions for many of you. They...
View ArticleWebPlatform Wednesday, Week 14: Grids
A lot of folks are vacationing now, far away from gridlock. But wait! Grid layout needs your help! Up to this point, our main focus was to edit content graciously donated by Microsoft, updating it to...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesday, Week 15: Finishing round one of CSS properties
Ding-ding! This week, we finish up with the first round of editing and adding samples to CSS properties. We’ll need to go back and pick up properties that weren’t completed or were recently added. But...
View ArticleWPW: a maker’s manifesto, revised
Last night, the HTML5 meetup in Sacramento, California, invited Rebecca Hauck, Larry McLister, and myself to talk about Test the Web Forward and WebPlatform.org. We met up at the Hacker Lab, where...
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Gusty doc sprint at UW in Seattle
What do you get when you mix WebPlatform Docs, University of Washington, Western Washington University, W3C spec editors, web developers of all levels, a winter storm with gale-force winds, loss of...
View ArticleJavaScript reference docs land on WPD
The goals of webplatform.org are bold, its projects large and ambitious. As have many other volunteers before me, I caught a sense of that vision and decided to make it my own while working on a...
View ArticleWeb Platform Wednesdays, meet JavaScript!
You’ve been waiting for a space to share your most treasured thoughts on JavaScript? Well, the wait is over. We’re ready for the second content project on webplatform.org. The JavaScript reference...
View ArticleWPW Week 1: Array
Here we are at Web Platform Wednesdays Week 1 for the JavaScript language reference! There’s a reason why organizations and individuals have come together to document the web platform here. The content...
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