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=== | === Project & event highlights === | ||
'''Marketplace Day: "All About Apps" on June 26''' | |||
This is an all-day online event that connects staff and volunteers around common tasks. There are contribution opportunities for everyone, from rating and translating apps to editing documentation to creating apps. Join anytime on that day and pick tasks to complete, moderate a module yourself, or just be convivial Check out [http://mzl.la/1ndv6xN the agenda], which includes specific times for specific topics. This will all take place in the #marketplace IRC room. | |||
* If you want to jump straight to the MDN docs track, check out [http://mzl.la/UCnz40 the etherpad]. | |||
'''Flame Reference Phone.''' The [http://mzl.la/Flame Flame] is a reference phone for developers to test out various app and OS features. They are available via a [http://mzl.la/everbuying retail site] as well as through [http://mzl.la/1lvwldv Apps on a Flame], a phone program for developers to port existing HTML5 apps built for other marketplaces/platforms and for Firefox App developers with proven Firefox Marketplace listings to build a new Firefox App for Firefox OS. | |||
'''Developer Tools in Firefox Beta.''' Upcoming [http://mzl.la/1pYlHN9 dev-friendly features in Firefox Beta] include support for Firefox Hub APIs allowing add-on developers to add their own content to the Firefox for Android homepage; APK Factory, which allows developers to provide a more familiar way for users to manage their Web apps; and other design & workflow goodies. | |||
'''MDN Learning Area.''' The MDN and WebMaker teams met for 2 days in London and made a plan for collaborating on the new beginner-level content on MDN. The team [http://mzl.la/1p2vJ0m did a lot], including sketching out launch content, a standard page structure, a preliminary roadmap, and proposals for joint events (including MozFest). | |||
'''New MDN Goodies''' h/t to [http://mzl.la/TWSzuV Chris Mills] | |||
* Introducing the [http://mzl.la/MediaRecorder MediaRecorder API], which became available in Firefox 25 and will be available in Firefox OS 2.0: | |||
* Learn how to [http://mzl.la/1pYmf5L add captions and subtitles] to HTML5 video | |||
* Interested in what's happening on MDN moving forward? Check out [http://mzl.la/1ixmgZ6 this rundown] of weekly MDN content activities. | |||
* ''The little things add up''. The MDN team went through all MDN pages that had errors in the in-wiki macro scripts that are used to automatically generate certain types of content, The team fixed all the cases in which they were not working correctly and resolved hundreds of errors. | |||
=== App & web developer Perspectives === | === App & web developer Perspectives === | ||