# Why I'm so excited about Web Platform Docs

DevFeed: [Why I'm so excited about Web Platform Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-i-m-so-excited-about-web-platform-docs-21677.md>)

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Author: Paul Irish

Published: 2012-10-08T20:09:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Paul Irish](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/paul-irish.md>)

Topics: [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Web platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-platform.md>), [web-standards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-standards.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browsers.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [Canvas](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/canvas.md>), [Document Object Model (DOM)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dom.md>), [HTML5](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html5.md>), [SVG](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svg.md>)

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## AI overview

The article celebrates the launch of Web Platform Docs as a shared effort by browser vendors, companies, technical writers, and the community to consolidate documentation for client-side web technologies. It explains that the project should make browser and device compatibility information easier to find and invites contributions of writing, support data, bug fixes, and content strategy expertise.

## Source excerpt

I absolutely love developing for the clientside of the web. Delivering the actual interactions and UI that all users feel is an absolutely gratifying experience. However... it's not a piece of cake to develop for all desktop browsers, mobile browsers, and all the device/OS combinations within. It's hard to track down accurate info, but hey we get by with an unruly combination of Mozilla's MDN, StackOverflow, HTML5 Please, W3C/WHATWG specs, Wikipedia, and a mental inventory of blog posts, tweets and articles strewn over the internet. Today's announcement of Web Platform Docs, an initiative that's been well over a year in the making, is huge. A few reasons why I'm pumped: All browser vendors are working together to document the all of the clientside web: DOM, CSS, HTML, SVG, Canvas, HTML5, JS, ES5... They've already contributed much of their content: all of the MSDN IE reference docs, the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, many HTML5 Rocks articles, Full-time technical writers from Google, Microsoft, Adobe and others authoring content around new features in addition to the strong community contributions. And obviously, a much more cohesive documentation situation, making it easier for us to develop with all the information we need. Mozilla's MDN content can be contributed! The content is still alpha, but we now have a single place to document the web platform. How can you help? "Upstream" your writing. If you've written a widely cited article exploring a feature or documenting cross-browser bugs, gotchas, certainly you can help a educate a vastly wider audience. Contribute browser support data. We thrive on knowing the mobile/desktop compat story. PPK will be publishing his compat tables there, and you can upstream compat facts from other sources freely. Fix bugs! Already a few bugs/annoyances have been unearthed. Please report them but more importantly, we'd love help fixing them! Attach a patch to a bugzilla ticket and we can push it live ASAP. Poke around the WPD: prefixe