| Mozilla launches "DevMo" web developer site |
Oct. 03, 2005
 Mozilla Corp. has launched a website for developers wanting to build on the Mozilla platform -- the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), unofficially dubbed "DevMo." MDC aims to provide the Mozilla product news, discussion, and the code, tools, and documentation needed to build new websites and applications, Mozilla said.
Much of the initial documentation has been migrated across from the now-defunct Netscape DevEdge site. Most of the site's content is available under a Creative Commons license, with code samples released under the MIT License.
Some of the technologies that have tutorials and/or discussion groups on the site include: - AJAX -- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
- CSS -- Cascading Style Sheets
- DOM -- Document Object Model
- HTML -- Hypertext Markup Language
- JavaScript
- XML -- Extensible Markup Language
- SVG -- Scalable Vector Graphics
- XUL -- XML User Interface Language
- RDF -- Resource Description Framework
- RSS -- Really Simple Syndication
- XSLT -- Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
- XML Web Services -- SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.
Most of the site is a collection of wikis, powered by MediaWiki. Anyone can sign up for an account and edit the documentation, which is available in nine languages. The English language wiki currently has the most complete information.
"The Mozilla Developer Center ... is one of web development's best kept secrets," wrote developer Simon Willison in his blog. "The site has a small but active community, and the quality of the content is extremely high. Well worth exploring."
Site director Deb Richardson told DesktopLinux.com that one of her goals for the site is to build "a large code source library" for developers to use and contribute their work. "We're using content from the DevEdge site, from IBM DeveloperWorks, and from the Mozilla community at large," Richardson said.
"We've designed this site for web developers in general, for developers who want to build Firefox extensions, and those who simply want to build on top of the Mozilla framework," said Mozilla director of products Chris Beard. "We've got a number of good tutorials, a lot of good sample code, and we have articles in multiple languages."
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