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Documenting the Web together

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Re: Documenting the Web together

#101
post #10

This is a great start. Now let's integrate caniuse into every single MDN page.

MDN already has compatibility tables for lots of things; if they're missing from a particular article, it's not because they're unsupported, it's because nobody has done the research and filled in the information (it's a wiki! You can add things!).

Re: Documenting the Web together

#102

A few years ago most of these companies got together to do the same thing and launch the WebPlatform for the same thing. If you watch the video, you can see some guy named Tim Berners-Lee with a title "Web Developer" say it was the place to learn. I wonder why they are relaunching instead of using Webplatform.Org ?

Federated content is hard.

Re: Documenting the Web together

#103
Déjà vu. Previously (checks email …almost exactly 5 years ago?! Christ, it was a long time ago), the web powers that be announced they were going to collaborate on a new web docs wiki.[0] I don't think it went anywhere because, well, MDN already existed.

I'm glad they finally just surrendered to MDN, even if it was many years late.

[0] https://www.w3.org/2012/10/webplatform.html.en

Re: Documenting the Web together

#104
post #96
post #7

The is great indeed. I hope w3schools.com won't appear in Google search result. BTW, It feels like OP omitted to mention to MS in the title though.

Sorry, I don't understand the overriding sentiment here.. Are we now asking Google et al to be the gatekeepers of what is deemed correct and useful because they have a preferred alternative that fits with our view on the world? W3Schools may not have the best historic reputation, but it still has a place in relevant search results. I have personally used MDN extensively over the years, and love it for what it is.

Google already overrides ranking to put its own preferred things first in your results. The time to complain about Google being a "gatekeeper of what is deemed correct and useful" was years ago; now it's far too late.

Re: Documenting the Web together

#105
post #76

> One of our guiding principles in developing Microsoft Edge is that end users should never have to worry about which sites work in which browsers. This philosophy—”the Web should just work for everyone“—led to our choice to target the “interoperable intersection” of web APIs in our browser engineering. That's a good move by MS. In this context it's great to see them supporting open codecs, and for istance OGG contai…

Because video-games is still the one place where Mac and Linux are lagging behind, and they have DirectX to thank a lot for that.

So, MS isn't new, it's same old MS, and their good behavior happens only when they already lost their monopolistic grip. Q.E.D.?

Re: Documenting the Web together

#106
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The whole point of documentation though is for it to be complete, technical and well explained. Not to have copy-pastable examples. W3schools is neither good documentation or good examples though.

I disagree, both are valuable. It all depends on what you need in the moment.

Re: Documenting the Web together

#108
post #7

The is great indeed. I hope w3schools.com won't appear in Google search result. BTW, It feels like OP omitted to mention to MS in the title though.

Duckduckgo is the way to go. Priorities MDN and Stack Overflow, really good search engine.
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