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The official source for MDN Web Docs content. Home to over 14,000 pages of documentation about HTML, CSS, JS, HTTP, Web APIs, and more.

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0Explicit recommenders
11.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

The official source for MDN Web Docs content. Home to over 14,000 pages of documentation about HTML, CSS, JS, HTTP, Web APIs, and more.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year51 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-11-03 11:06:07 UTC to 2026-09-25 21:42:17 UTC.

02468102020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 3 submissions, 4 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 3 submissions, 7 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC734
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1037
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817

From the project README

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Welcome to MDN Web Docs MDN Web Docs is an open-source, collaborative project that documents web technologies including CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and Web APIs. Alongside detailed reference documentation, we provide extensive learning resources for students and beginners getting started with web development. MDN's mission MDN's mission is to provide a blueprint for a better internet and empower a new generation of developers and content creators to build it. The strength of MDN Web Docs lies in its vast community of active readers and contributors. Since 2005, approximately 45,000 contributors have created the documentation we know and love. Together, contributors have created over 45,000 documents that make up an up-to-date, comprehensive, and free resource for web developers worldwide. In addition to English-language articles, over 35 volunteers lead translation and localization efforts for Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Build the site To set up the site locally, you need to have Node.js installed, which comes bundled with npm. You can check if these are installed by running the following commands: node -v npm -v After you have installed Node.js, you can install the dependencies using npm install and start the local preview: npm i npm start Once started, a live preview is available at http://localhost:5042/. Contribute to MDN Web Docs You can contribute to MDN Web Docs and be a part of our community through content contributions, engineering, or translation work. The MDN Web Docs project welcomes contributions from everyone who shares our goals and wants to contribute constructively and respectfully within our community. To find out how to get started, see the CONTRIBUTING.md document in this repository. By participating in and contributing to our projects and discussions, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to our Code of Conduct, which means adhering to Mozilla's Community Participation Guidelines. Get in touch You can communicate with the MDN Web Docs team and community using the communication channels.
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What Hacker News says

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That's not a very accurate summary. I think you're probably referring to [1] which says > because polyfills are really hard to get right and we should treat everything as insecure and wrong by default ... I took a brief look at your code and I don't think it's spec-compliant enough to be advertised as a polyfill/ponyfill because it is prone to global pollution. They then demonstrate that it's not compliant, which the contributor seems to think is not relevant. Mostly, this contributor comes across as hurt that their PR wasn't immediately merged by virtue of their many years in the 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...
In A new learning experience on MDN
Right now Firefox for Android does not support Intl.Segmenter [1] but it appears that support has been added to nightly [2] and will be released soon! Sorry about that. I was weighing the pro/con of waiting for support to be released or adding a polyfill but it seems that support is just around the corner from what 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
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