{"id":8949,"date":"2013-07-04T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:43:56","slug":"break-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/break-things\/","title":{"rendered":"We want you to break things"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you think about it, the idea behind \u201cview source\u201d is incredible. Not only can you, with the click of a button, instantly reveal a site\u2019s code; you can copy, paste, tweak and make that code into something all your own. In many ways, it\u2019s this concept that helped make the Internet such a revolutionary tool in the first place. And it\u2019s this idea that lives at the heart of an open source web culture.
\nIt\u2019s also the idea at the heart of Mozilla\u2019s Webmaker<\/a> project: to inspire people to make the web through remixing and building upon the work of others. We want as many people as possible to become webmakers\u2014and to learn how to build the web by mucking around with code in a playful and exploratory way.
\n\"webmaker.org\"<\/a>
\nWebmaker<\/a> started with a set of easy-to-use tools that allowed users to learn code and webmaking while creating great content. Our Thimble<\/a> code editor allows users to see the changes they make to a web page in real-time, as they edit HTML\u2014and highlights mistakes or broken code along the way. Our Popcorn Maker <\/a>tool allows users to layer YouTube videos with other rich media and information\u2014mixing content from Flickr<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>, Soundcloud<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> and more in one place. And along the way we built a mentor community<\/a>\u2014a network of people around the world who are teaching<\/em> the web through hands-on projects.
\nNow, we\u2019re taking the Webmaker project to the next step\u2014with a newly re-designed webmaker.org<\/a>. The site now features:<\/p>\n