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Re: Lay off W3Schools

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post #93

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Have you used the MDN? It's hosted by Mozilla but it's an open wiki. Almost any bug or oddity in a browser will likely be listed. There are pages for essentially every extension for most browsers as well. Webkit's extensions live at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/CSS_Reference/W... for example. The MDN also has fantastic tutorials ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Getting_Started is the CSS…

I use MDN, not extensively though. I like this site, it is useful and very well organized, but feature availability (browser & level) is not as well documented as in w3schools I find. Chrome is probably not the issue here, rather - let's name it - IE. MDN is a great site, don't misunderstand me - but in this case I am not sure this is the right hoster. I used MDN for some JavaScript issues like one year ago, and it w…

shrug different strokes. I learned to website via the MDN.

Re: Lay off W3Schools

#102
post #70

W3Schools is not perfect but it is the best HTML/CSS reference that I've seen. The W3Fools effort is sort of well-intentioned but overly disrespectful. The supposed alternatives linked from W3Fools are hideous. W3Fools energy would be _MUCH_ better spent on developing an alternative.

We have MDN, dochub, sitepoint, etc, they all have up-to-date, correct content. We don't need another one. What's hideous about them?

OK, MDN is good. So I just have to add "mdn" to my Google searches. But the others really are awful.
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