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Re: Documenting the Web together

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Post by addicted »

rand_r wrote: post #21
nblavoie wrote: post #3

Good Bye w3schools.com ?

w3schools.com is a great resource. I prefer it when I need a quick refresher on an HTML element because it's especially good for having short, simple examples I can copy and paste. MDN tends to be verbose and technical. It's good when you need to know everything in detail, but often I need a quick refresher and a simple example and for that w3schools.com always seems to have better content. Compare these two pages fo…

W3Schools is a decent introduction though.

When I was just starting out it was nice to be able to quickly look up the syntax of a basic JOIN SQL statement on w3schools.

Re: Documenting the Web together

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Post by HatchedLake721 »

madeofpalk wrote: post #27
andy_ppp wrote: post #18

Great, while they are at it can Google please downgrade the extremely spammy w3schools or at least allow me to remove certain websites from my searches. There are so many better resources out there...

I’ll never/rarely click a w3schools link, but I do find MDN to be quite difficult to read with it’s pages being quite technical and terse. W3schools is quite pragmatic with providing a reference for CSS properties. I hope these extra resources will let MDN improve on this.

Exactly. Sometimes I just close MDN and then click on w3schools link for this reason.

Re: Documenting the Web together

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Post by brokentone »

vinhboy wrote: post #36
andy_ppp wrote: post #18

Great, while they are at it can Google please downgrade the extremely spammy w3schools or at least allow me to remove certain websites from my searches. There are so many better resources out there...

I've never understood the hate for w3schools. I've always found them to be extremely useful. I like that usage examples is the focus of their site. I find that more useful than wordy documentations that more advanced references provide.

At this point (trying to be a good citizen, not using an ad blocker) the ads on the site lock up my computer, and a simple lookup turns into a substantial time investment. Vs MDN doesn't have this issue.

Re: Documenting the Web together

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Post by michaeljchou »

matthberg wrote: post #6

This is great news, but the title misses out on the fact that Microsoft (the blog poster, nonetheless) is part of the "others" joining. Revising for clarity would be good.

Yeah. And the link is actually to a blog post from Microsoft stating they started redirecting MSDN pages to corresponding MDN ones.

Re: Documenting the Web together

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #40
vinhboy wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood the hate for w3schools. I've always found them to be extremely useful. I like that usage examples is the focus of their site. I find that more useful than wordy documentations that more advanced references provide.

http://www.w3fools.com/ top of the page summarizes the situation: > When W3Fools was launched in 2011, the state of documentation for developers was poor. This site documented many content errors and issues with the W3Schools website. The Mozilla Developer Network was around but it did not have much support at the time. > Today, W3Schools has largely resolved these issues and addressed the majority of the undersigned…

I'm still waiting for the true spiritual revival of HTML Goodies https://web.archive.org/web/19980130110903/http://htmlgoodie...

Or not. MDN usually suits me fine.

Actually, I find TutorialsPoint https://www.tutorialspoint.com/ generally pretty good, if not lacking in some depth. They give a decent soft intro, though.

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Post by megalodon »

booleandilemma wrote: post #37
madeofpalk wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll never/rarely click a w3schools link, but I do find MDN to be quite difficult to read with it’s pages being quite technical and terse. W3schools is quite pragmatic with providing a reference for CSS properties. I hope these extra resources will let MDN improve on this.

I agree. I feel like going to MDN to quickly look up syntax is like trying to kill a fly with a handgun.

I’m quite the opposite, I feel like MDN is the only sane resource in an ocean of opinionated crap. Not saying it covers everything but for syntax it’s practically the only place I visit.

Re: Documenting the Web together

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Post by wnevets »

andy_ppp wrote: post #18

Great, while they are at it can Google please downgrade the extremely spammy w3schools or at least allow me to remove certain websites from my searches. There are so many better resources out there...

> or at least allow me to remove certain websites from my searches.

Im currently using a chrome extension from google[0] to do exactly this.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

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