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Re: Documenting the Web together

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MDN didn't do a good job of advertising itself as a wiki. It wasn't until recently that you could login with a GitHub account. When you google "can i use flexbox", caniuse.com comes up but MDN does not. The other thing missing from MDN, is that caniuse.com shows browser support as a percentage. Now I know I'm safe to use flexbox since its supported by 97.74% of browsers in the wild. When a new feature comes out, I ad…

I don't like that caniuse by default shows only several recent browser versions, deceiving developers and making it look like some new technology is supported everywhere. It is clearly a "dark" UI pattern that motivates developers to make sites viewable only on latest Macbook. Instead, it should show the year since which some feature is supported. For example, for flexbox it could write: IE - never Edge - since 2015…

I actually like how it currently works because it doesn’t matter if Chrome 32 didn’t support feature X because no one is using it. The boxes are sized by their current usage and aligned based on the stable version.

It’s a perfect chart to show your boss when someone complains about Firefox 4 not working. Clearly that person missed a few updates :)

That being said, I would like a year on each column for the occurrences when time/year is relevant. Currently I just Show All.

Re: Documenting the Web together

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post #166

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W3School is very good to quickly look something up - short and always with a simple example. MDN is very good for details and in general as reference.

Short and always with a terrible example. I would never trust W3Schools with the simplest stuff. Take this form documentation, they don't even mention using https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp Sadly, "html forms" brings up 3+ W3Schools pages of at the top.

+1

W3schools is contributing to poor education amongst junior web developers.

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