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Published February 2, 2021, 9:11 AM The term Web Docs is often associated with the MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) Web Docs — a documentation repository for web developers used by Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, and Samsung. MDN Web Docs is the single best definition of online collaboration, with individual community members constantly making big and small fixes to help incrementally improve its content. To ensure the long-term health of web platform documentation on the de facto standard resourc...

Created in 2005 by Mozilla, MDN Web Docs serves as an all-encompassing repository for developers working in HTML and JavaScript among other languages to build web-based apps and platforms.  The repository’s future was threatened when Mozilla made a round of 250 job cuts last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however. This has sprung a number of large tech companies, including Mozilla, to establish a new model for funding and maintaining this critical resource used by developers across the i...