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The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Post by cx1000 »

mxuribe wrote: post #12

Yeah for this statement, "...often Web developers are looking for quick examples...", I don't even care if the examples are higher up on the page or not...I just would like more and more examples. Sometimes the examples are too few or don't fully exemplify options of particular functions, etc. Nevertheless, I'm absolutely grateful to all the folks who put in so much work into MDN. If you are one of those people, know…

This is one of the only reasons I sometimes end up back at w3schools after reading the mdn docs: when I'm looking for a quick, working, live example. A short example is worth a thousand words.

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Post by savanaly »

westoque wrote: post #5

I just wish they had better SEO than say W3Schools

I've just had to get into the habit of appending mdn to all my web development queries to make it show up at the top. Can't count the number of time's I've done the search "[some new array method] mdn". Invaluable website.

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Post by aviraldg »

Kiro wrote: post #19
iand wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem has been that historically W3Schools has been inaccurate. MDN set out to fix that and be the best source. I don't know why W3Schools has so much SEO juice.

Historically maybe but I don't think that's true nowadays.

Even then, why would you support a closed, commercial, outdated website instead of MDN which is essentially a wiki?

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Post by GunlogAlm »

savanaly wrote: post #34
westoque wrote: post #5

I just wish they had better SEO than say W3Schools

I've just had to get into the habit of appending mdn to all my web development queries to make it show up at the top. Can't count the number of time's I've done the search "[some new array method] mdn". Invaluable website.

Same. Maybe I'll make a point of not appending the "mdn" and just scrolling down until I find the MDN result, in the future.

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Post by discreditable »

gpm wrote: post #13
vog wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same for RFCs. Let's search for "rfc 1855". The first item is indeed the original plain text source, unfortunately without links or anything: - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt But the second hit is a third-party source, that doesn't provide much over the plain text version. It doesn't even contain the RFC contents directly. I can't imagine anyone seriously linked to that page, let alone that so many are doing it…

Same search on duckduckgo, first few results are (in order): - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 (html version) - ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt (text version) - rfc1855.net (another html version which is more readable than the ietf's) - datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1855/ (information about the history of the rfc) - https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1855 (useless) This is one of the clearest examples yet of why I prefer…

On DDG, you can use a bang search to directly get there too. Try: !rfc 1925

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Post by absove »

savanaly wrote: post #34
westoque wrote: post #5

I just wish they had better SEO than say W3Schools

I've just had to get into the habit of appending mdn to all my web development queries to make it show up at the top. Can't count the number of time's I've done the search "[some new array method] mdn". Invaluable website.

In firefox you can also add it as an alternative search engine.

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Post by klez »

fiatjaf wrote: post #33

Please stop forcing those stupid horrible-quality Portuguese translations upon me!

To the best of my knowledge, if you go to https://developer.mozilla.org you're just served articles in English (that may be because I have English set as my language in my browser, I don't remember what happens if I set it to my actual native language). But I noticed that Google search results actually are pointing me to my native language.

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Post by Etheryte »

One thing that would be brilliant and would also help with numerous other issues would be if the site was open source and available on Github.

This change would allow numerous improvements such as up-to-date, relevant examples, issues and pull requests for discussions and improvement etc.

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