WebPlatform.org

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WebPlatform.org
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Dissolved September 2015
Owner Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera Software, and W3C
URL webplatform.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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LaunchedOctober 8, 2012;11 years ago (2012-10-08)
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WebPlatform.org (or WebPlatform) was a community-edited documentation website spun off by W3C. It sought to create a vendor-neutral online reference of Web platform standards. The project was a collaboration among Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera Software, and W3C, who were called "stewards" of the WebPlatform project. [1]

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WebPlatform.org was an open community of developers building resources for a better web, regardless of brand, browser, or platform. Anyone could contribute to the reference, by collaborating on the wiki documentation pages (WebPlatform Docs), sharing and commenting on the WebPlatform blog posts, and communicating through the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel.

WebPlatform Docs used MediaWiki as its platform. [2] The documentation contained sections titled Beginners Guide, General Web Concepts, HTML, CSS, Accessibility, JavaScript, DOM, API & SVG, originally imported from resources maintained by the involved parties.

In September 2015, WebPlatform project was discontinued because the stewards' partnership agreement ended. All of its content was "frozen" and archived. [3] [4] [5]

New documentation can be found at MDN Web Docs. [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Web Platform Stewards" . Retrieved 2012-10-08.
  2. ↑ IEBlog. "Web Platform Docs Debuts with Developer Resources". IEBlog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  3. ↑ "Blog · WebPlatform.org". WebPlatform.org. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  4. ↑ Rohani, Kirk (2016-11-15). "Messaage on webplatform.org site | Treehouse Community". Treehouse Community. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  5. ↑ Fregoso, Aldo (2016-11-22). "Endorse MDN instead of Web Platform Docs · Issue #71 · paulirish/w3fools". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  6. ↑ Navara, Erika Doyle (2017-10-18). "Documenting the Web together". Microsoft Edge Blog. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  7. ↑ Spivak, Ali (2017-10-18). "Mozilla brings Microsoft, Google, the W3C, Samsung together to create cross-browser documentation on MDN". The Mozilla Blog. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
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