The MDN Team
4 minutes read
MDN's MCP server brings MDN's documentation and browser compatibility data directly into your editor or IDE, giving your LLM or coding agent access to accurate, up-to-date web platform information.
Leo McArdle
23 minutes read
You may have spotted that MDN has a new frontend. There's plenty happening under the surface, so let's unpack the technologies we chose, the architectural decisions we made, and why we did a rebuild at all.
Polina Gurtovaia
10 minutes read
Image compression involves countless trade-offs between quality, size, and speed. In this final part of the series, we experiment with codecs, metrics, and tools to find practical ways to balance efficiency and visual fidelity.
Yash Raj Bharti
5 minutes read
Learn how to bring smooth, animated navigation to multi-page apps with view transitions. With just one line of CSS, you can enable seamless transitions between pages.
The MDN Team
2 minutes read
MDN is getting a facelift 🎉. Discover what's changed, what's improved, and how navigating the site just got smoother.
Polina Gurtovaia
18 minutes read
From individual pixels to fully decoded images on your screen, raw pixel data gets transformed, compressed, and efficiently delivered. Learn about the techniques and optimizations that shrink image information without any perceivable loss in quality.
Joe Walker
3 minutes read
MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.
Polina Gurtovaia
17 minutes read
Images help bring more color and life to the web. This post describes how images are represented by humans and on different devices, with details about color spaces and vision theory.
Simon Pieters
4 minutes read
Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for conformant and better-structured pages.
Lola Odelola
5 minutes read
Global Privacy Control (GPC) is on the way to becoming a formal privacy standard with the recent publication of its first working draft. Let's take a look at what the implications are for developers and users.