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Re: MDN Blog

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Post by itsuka »

chrismorgan wrote: post #10
itsuka wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right. I am not as familiar with MDN's organization and CSS as you are (I only recently discovered that CSS is a typed language). However, I find it confusing that some pages have their own page for values, while others don't. As a reference page, I expect the valid syntax for all values to be provided. But I agree that specific examples can be linked to other resources.

Things like colours and units get used in many properties (color, background-color, border-color, box-shadow—in which is only a part of the syntax—and many more; width, length, font-size, font—a shorthand in which is only a part—and many more), and if they get expanded in one place, then all properties that use them take the new definition—hence , , &c. as the only sensible way to structure things (in spec, reference…

Thank you for taking the time to explain things so clearly to me. Considering the reuse, having values in a separate page makes sense now.

Re: MDN Blog

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Post by tosbourn »

I'm excited to see the articles they produce.

I was a bit disapointed to see their RSS feed doesn't let you read the posts in your reader of choice.

Just some generic "click here to read more" descriptions and massive images.

I get that they're wanting to to sponsored stuff and for that they need stats and what have you, but I expected a bit better.

Re: MDN Blog

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Post by cjpearson »

jarebear6expepj wrote: post #4
raybb wrote: post #2

Perhaps the intro blog post should be the one linked: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/welcome-to-the-MDN-... Interesting that they'll have sponsored posts.

Interesting that you think it's interesting. If there ever was a place for it, this would be it. I would personally prefer them doing it on their blog than being interrupted in the docs. At least I know what I am getting with the blog. Where would your preference be for their monetization strategy?

Maybe it can be done well, but the Stack Overflow experience wasn't great. It's just filled with junk paid promotion articles and I avoid it completely now. Maybe the blog is useful for marketing their products, but IMO it's definitely damaged their brand value.

Donations is a bit of a cop-out answer I know, but it can work for reference works. I wouldn't want Wikipedia to fund itself with sponsored articles.

Re: MDN Blog

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Post by sixo »

cjpearson wrote: post #15
jarebear6expepj wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting that you think it's interesting. If there ever was a place for it, this would be it. I would personally prefer them doing it on their blog than being interrupted in the docs. At least I know what I am getting with the blog. Where would your preference be for their monetization strategy?

Maybe it can be done well, but the Stack Overflow experience wasn't great. It's just filled with junk paid promotion articles and I avoid it completely now. Maybe the blog is useful for marketing their products, but IMO it's definitely damaged their brand value. Donations is a bit of a cop-out answer I know, but it can work for reference works. I wouldn't want Wikipedia to fund itself with sponsored articles.

If the promotions ruined the channel the price was too low.
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