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Nu Html Checker – Helps you catch problems in your HTML/CSS/SVG

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w3c/mdn-spec-links

MDN Spec Links – Linking specs to MDN and browser-support data

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mdn/content

The content behind MDN Web Docs

HTML 2.3k 1k
mdn/browser-compat-data

This repository contains compatibility data for Web technologies as displayed on MDN

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whatwg/html

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whatwg/wattsi

Preprocessor for the HTML Standard

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Contributed to mdn/content, mdn/browser-compat-data, validator/validator and 5 other repositories

Contribution activity

April 2021

Created 98 commits in 8 repositories

Created 1 repository

sideshowbarker/SE-Userscripts JavaScript Apr 17

Created a pull request in mdn/content that received 10 comments

Refactor “Loose equality using ==”

This change refactors the entire “Loose equality using ==” section in the “Equality comparisons and sameness” article — with the goal of improving …

+135 −111 • 10 comments

Opened 82 other pull requests in 6 repositories

mdn/content

4 open 48 merged 2 closed

Add polyfill link to ChildNode.p.remove() doc Apr 21
Fix punctuation in AudioBufferSourceNode.p.start doc Apr 20
Fix 404s for decodeAudioData example Apr 20
Fix broken links in “MediaTrackConstraints” doc Apr 20
Fix various problems in Array.p.find|findIndex Apr 19
Remove ChildNode.p.remove() polyfill Apr 19
Fix Specifications tables for USBConfiguration features Apr 19
Fix PerformanceElementTiming subpages SpecName Apr 19
Fix the SpecName in ContactsManager doc Apr 19
Fix Specs table for PerformanceElementTiming Apr 19
Drop broken link in “Using the Notifications API” Apr 19
“Operator precedence” note: spread not an operator Apr 18
Document the fetch() method cache parameter Apr 17
Drop the ToC from README.md Apr 17
Update outdated info on ECMAScript specs Apr 17
List out default “box-sizing: border-box” elements Apr 17
Clarify in JS “static” doc: class fields are a proposal Apr 16
Drop unhelpful note about CSRF from CORS doc Apr 16
Drop parameter from example location.reload() call Apr 16
Clean up documentation about Alt-Svc HTTP header Apr 16
Drop inline styles from “Sameness Comparisons” table Apr 16
Fix typos in Structures/Syntax_sections doc Apr 16
Fix misstatement about <form> name being deprecated Apr 14
Add link to CORS article in “Using Fetch” doc Apr 13
Add an example to the SVG “transform-origin” doc Apr 13
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mdn/browser-compat-data

3 open 18 merged

Add spec URLs for G* APIs Apr 21
Add spec URLs for GlobalEventHandlers members Apr 21
Add ContactsManager spec URL; fix exitPictureInPicture spec URL Apr 21
Add more CSS API spec URLs Apr 21
Add Background Fetch spec URLs Apr 21
Add spec URL for DOMParser.p.parseFromString Apr 19
Drop the ToC from docs/data-guidelines.md Apr 17
Add spec URLs for all E to F API features Apr 14
Add spec URLs for all API features starting w/ “D” Apr 14
Add all spec URLs for the Element object Apr 14
Add all spec URLs for the Document object Apr 14
Add spec URL for the CSS @property rule Apr 14
Update some html/manifest spec URLs Apr 14
Add more CSS* API spec URLs Apr 14
Add more Bluetooth* and BarcodeDetector spec URLs Apr 14
Add spec URLs for all API features starting w/ “C” Apr 14
Add spec URLs for all API features starting w/ “Canvas” Apr 14
Add spec URLs for all API features starting w/ “CSS” Apr 14
Add spec URLs for all API features starting w/ “B” Apr 14
Add spec URLs for all API features starting w/ “A” Apr 14
Drop mdn_url for the appcache "manifest" attribute Apr 13

w3c/FileAPI

1 open 1 merged

Editorial: Change index.bs status to WD (from ED) Apr 21
CI: Enable autopublishing to W3C TR space Apr 20

mdn/yari

2 merged

Add the Sensor API to GroupData.json Apr 17
Fix SVG <text> “Permitted content” Apr 6

WICG/periodic-background-sync

2 merged

Fix bikeshed x-ref error Apr 11
CI: Autopublish using GH Actions; rm index.html Apr 11

WICG/content-index

1 merged

CI: Build/validate/publish using GitHub Actions Apr 13

Reviewed 123 pull requests in 8 repositories

mdn/content 115 pull requests

Fix typo in “JavaScript data types and data structures” doc Apr 21
Fix slug for RuntimeError constructor Apr 21
Update syntax blocks for Errors, typed arrays, misc Apr 21
FileSystemHandle.p.queryPermission() throws for bad mode param Apr 20
Fixed a typo in the HTMLElement.inert documentation Apr 20
Replace Content-Type with Accept in fetch GET examples Apr 20
fix(attributes): link to datetime Apr 20
Update syntax blocks for DataView Apr 19
Update syntax blocks for Date Apr 19
Update syntax block for built-ins A to B Apr 19
Made rust wasm example independent from npm Apr 19
Fix openOrCloseShadowRoot example Apr 19
Minor edits to isNaN doc Apr 19
Update ternary operator spacing in Proxy example Apr 18
fix: stray closing H2 Apr 18
Update Web/HTTP/Resources_and_URIs Apr 17
Fix attribute typo in “Using the aria-invalid attribute” doc Apr 17
Fix "301" description in Location header doc Apr 17
Add info about when fetch promise is resolved exactly Apr 17
Refactor “Loose equality using ==” Apr 17
Add Specifications heading to array.at() Apr 17
fix: HTML validation issues Apr 17
fix fileHandle.kind usage Apr 16
fix fileHandle.kind usage Apr 16
fix fileHandle.kind usage Apr 16
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mdn/browser-compat-data 2 pull requests

Add spec URLs for all API features starting w/ “C” Apr 14
Remove XPath and XSLT data Apr 12

whatwg/dom 1 pull request

Editorial: remove context object concept Apr 19

w3c/FileAPI 1 pull request

Use GitHub workflows instead of travis.org for CI and publishing. Apr 19

whatwg/html 1 pull request

Define <meta media>. Fixes #6495. Apr 14

WICG/periodic-background-sync 1 pull request

Editorial: Align with Web IDL specification Apr 12

whatwg/html-build 1 pull request

Lint for non-breaking spaces Apr 10

whatwg/fetch 1 pull request

Editorial: tweak wording for "The Web Origin Concept" obsolescence Apr 5

Created an issue in mdn/yari that received 20 comments

500 error: “Error: Unable to figure out locale from . with .” for Web/API/DirectoryReaderSync locally

When I navigate to http://localhost:5000/en-US/docs/Web/API/DirectoryReaderSync locally, I get this: Error: Unable to figure out locale from . with .

20 comments

Opened 5 other issues in 5 repositories

w3c/fxtf-drafts

1 closed

500 error for https://drafts.fxtf.org/compositing/ + weirdness with Compositing 1 & 2 on https://drafts.fxtf.org/ index page Apr 20

w3c/csswg-drafts

1 closed

500 error for https://drafts.fxtf.org/compositing/ + weirdness with Compositing 1 & 2 on https://drafts.fxtf.org/ index page Apr 20

mdn/content

1 open

Handling 33 CSS articles with broken live samples due to https://mdn.mozillademos.org URLs Apr 18

mdn/samples-server

1 open

https://mdn-samples.mozilla.org/ is unresponsive Apr 16

mdn/browser-compat-data

1 open

Remove xslt feature/directory from the repo (the data for which is mostly null) Apr 12