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The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Which mobile browsers allow this? Does it synchronise them? I've used these a lot in the past, but switched to DDG's bangs largely because it was such a pain to change browsers/devices, and none of them ever worked for me on mobile. DDG's bangs are still a little unwieldy (! isn't a very convenient character to type, especially on mobile), so an alternative would be nice. For now though, the consistency everywhere fa…

In Firefox custom keywords are just bookmarks, and those sync. So this works on mobile. All you have to do is create bookmark with "%s" in the URL where you need substitution and give it a keyword, and typing ` ` in the URL bar will use the bookmark . Unfortunately the UI isn't too great -- on desktop, the suggestions between the awesomebar show you that a keyword search will happen (just like when you type something…

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this, particularly as the "normal" search engines in Firefox don't sync. I think this is in the works but it's been held up by some kind of issues with their search partner deals.

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

#112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which mobile browsers allow this? Does it synchronise them? I've used these a lot in the past, but switched to DDG's bangs largely because it was such a pain to change browsers/devices, and none of them ever worked for me on mobile. DDG's bangs are still a little unwieldy (! isn't a very convenient character to type, especially on mobile), so an alternative would be nice. For now though, the consistency everywhere fa…

> Which mobile browsers allow this? Does it synchronise them? Opera, yes.

I was a long time Opera user up until 12 and still use the mobile version. I can't seem to use keywords on mobile though. Are you sure it works? How do you set it up?

Re: The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

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Yeah for this statement, "...often Web developers are looking for quick examples...", I don't even care if the examples are higher up on the page or not...I just would like more and more examples. Sometimes the examples are too few or don't fully exemplify options of particular functions, etc. Nevertheless, I'm absolutely grateful to all the folks who put in so much work into MDN. If you are one of those people, know…

> Sometimes the examples are too few or don't fully exemplify options of particular functions

TBH, that's why actual documentation is there. Examples can never really cover everything something can [or cannot] do.

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