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It is a reference to the closing lines of Middlemarch: "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly depe…

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking about, but if it's our use of `var` in code examples, we had a big project this summer to eradicate `var` in favour of `const` and `let`. Th…

This came up the other day, actually! https://github.com/orgs/mdn/discussions/256#discussioncommen... :)

Sorry, I didn't intend to misrepresent, but yes, there is a fuller story here of course. Before 2020, MDN was in a Wiki and editors could use a WYSIWYG interface, which was OK for …

Thanks @vedranm! I especially like your side-by-side comparison of the process of contributing using Markdown versus reST. It really encapsulates the difference that reasonably sea…

Last year we changed the source format for MDN from some extremely messy, WYSIWYG-authored HTML to something that would be easier for authors to use. We considered Asciidoc and reS…

I agree. We are always trying to improve this but it's a huge task as MDN is such a big site. If you could please file issues (or PRs :) when you find bad practice examples, it wou…

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

> Elsewhere in this thread is a link to a separate organization called "OpenWebDocs," which appears to be an outside consortium that contributes to MDN. Yes, that's what Open Web D…

We're working on this... https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data , https://github.com/mdn/data ...but it's going to be a slow process.

How to check: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Testing .

There's some interesting talk about that in mozilla.dev.platform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...