Learning the Web
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Learning the Web
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Re: Learning the Web
#2 LEARN TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python
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#3While I applaud the effort, this just shows how disconnected Mozilla has become from the web in general. I wish they'd concentrate on making a great browser, an area they were leading until Chrome and the mobile web happened.
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#4While I applaud the effort, this just shows how disconnected Mozilla has become from the web in general. I wish they'd concentrate on making a great browser, an area they were leading until Chrome and the mobile web happened.
> this just shows how disconnected Mozilla has become from the web in general
Seriously?! How did you arrive at this conclusion?
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#5LEARN TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python One of those does not belong.
Which one? Python? It's commonly used for writing backends. Not everyone lives eats and sleeps JavaScript all day. You could also use it to write a web crawler, or a desktop application that emails you reminders. Who said that the web has to be all Front End code/language that executes in a browser?
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#6While I applaud the effort, this just shows how disconnected Mozilla has become from the web in general. I wish they'd concentrate on making a great browser, an area they were leading until Chrome and the mobile web happened.
If they are doing their best to make a great platform (Firefox, and the web in general), doesn't it make sense to tell people how to use it? I refer to the MDN all the time for JS and CSS documentation, and documentation is a necessary part of living in a software ecosystem. I would rather have people studying from MDN than W3Schools.
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#7While I applaud the effort, this just shows how disconnected Mozilla has become from the web in general. I wish they'd concentrate on making a great browser, an area they were leading until Chrome and the mobile web happened.
You're assuming that the time/money spent working on web literacy at Mozilla can just be taken and thrown at Firefox to make it better. I disagree, and think that web literacy is a good direction to put some effort towards as it relates pretty directly to our manifesto.
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#8LEARN TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python One of those does not belong.
Which one? Python? It's commonly used for writing backends. Not everyone lives eats and sleeps JavaScript all day. You could also use it to write a web crawler, or a desktop application that emails you reminders. Who said that the web has to be all Front End code/language that executes in a browser?
Plenty of languages are commonly used for writing backends. JavaScript may be more popular for backends than Python for new projects these days. The point is that JavaScript, CSS and HTML are native web technologies, Python is just one language choice among others.
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#9LEARN TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python One of those does not belong.
Which one? Python? It's commonly used for writing backends. Not everyone lives eats and sleeps JavaScript all day. You could also use it to write a web crawler, or a desktop application that emails you reminders. Who said that the web has to be all Front End code/language that executes in a browser?
> Python? It's commonly used for writing backends.
So are dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of other capable languages and platforms. They could have easily mentioned Ruby, Java, or NodeJS.
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#10That page is pretty overwhelming. No real calls to action on it other than the suggested links on the main page. I can really see this page being too much information at once for a beginner. Maybe get rid of all the information between the end of the Note and the footer; it seems like you could put that stuff at the end of the Getting Started tutorial in a sort of "where to go from here" section. Make sure they're interested first.