A Techie Tech Writer Blog

Mozilla Hacks is Mozilla-run blog for developers that highlights innovative uses of Firefox and the open web. I've posted my first entry, Help us set priorities for docs. As I mention in the post, Mozilla is planning to start doing doc sprints to improve the developer-oriented content on the Mozilla Developer Network site. So we're soliciting input from the developer community on what their greatest documentation needs are.

It's exciting for me as a techwriter to be able to get direct feedback from members of the documentation audience, and not have to go through intermediaries such as support, consulting, or sales. I no longer have to guess about what they want, because, believe me, they are more than willing to express themselves! Votes are already pouring in to the Dev Doc Priorities forum. Users have 10 votes, which they can spread around multiple topics, or pile them all on one. As I write this, "Multithreading in JavaScript" is in the lead, but "HTML Reference" is only a few votes behind.