Don't forget you can use https://devdocs.io/ too which also searches MDN and store offline. The two are a great pair.
cool, i didn't know that site. wonderful ux
how's the content added though? its missing so many libraries i use...
Documenting the Web together
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#82Great, 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 find duckduckgo much better for these kind of searches. It also shows a brief instant result which is usually an excerpt from MDN. Actually, I find duckduckgo better for all kinds of technical searches these days.
Their Stack Overflow integration is to me one of the best things that ever happened to search engines.
Re: Documenting the Web together
#83Great, 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...
IMO W3schools has some of the best development tutorials for beginners
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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.
They aggressively create separate pages for every element and attribute, each full of ads, but hardly any containing substantive descriptions of the things they document. At worst they just restate the name of the attribute in different words. And the examples, while sometimes nice, often just show the effect of turning a property on or off and don't really demonstrate the different things you can do with it. If they…
I'm surprised. This is the type of thing that should fall within the Panda update cross hairs. Thin content, heavy ads - Google should by design be favouring pages that aren't shooting for cheap long tail hits.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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...
Why is this supported through a Chrome extension? Google is tracking everything about me. So I expect that certainly they can track which sites I don't like, especially when I mark them as such.
They use to for a short time, I don't recall if they ever said why they removed the feature from google search itself. This extension came after they removed it.
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#86Great, 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.
They were great in 2006 when I was learning, but they're not nearly as useful as MDN (even foregoing the accusations that w3schools is errant and spammy). It's simply annoying to have to manually filter the w3schools (and others) search results when MDN is sooo much better.
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#87Earlier 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.
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.
How can you use the web without an ad blocker? Anytime I get on a browser without an ad blocker I'm reminded of how slow and horrible the web used to be (and apparently still is).
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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.
Same here. For syntax and quick examples, I find w3schools much harder to parse than MDN. Maybe there's more noise in w3schools, or maybe the layout/design of MDN are better for these purposes.
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#89Given that the blog is on windows.com and it mentions MSDN, I think the title should include Microsoft as well. I was actually confused/befuddled seeing the juxtaposition of Google and Mozilla in the title, and windows.com as the domain in brackets to the right of the title.
We've reverted the title to the article's original which, since it is neither misleading nor baity, is what the guidelines call for (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
The submitted title was "Mozilla, Google, others team up to make MDN Docs the place to go for web API ref" which is actually an uptick in misleadingness, as you and others pointed out. Submitters: please don't do that.
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#90Why Samsung?