Why doesn't MDN go the Stack Overflow route and allow people to ask questions and even answer them and curate it all?
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Re: MDN Plus
#232I don't feel anyone should need to personally "donate" to MDN or feel compelled to out of some sense of moral obligation; or any other reason for that matter. This isn't a donation per-say, but many on here seem to not care one iota about the features but still express a sentiment to want to "donate"..
The major players make nigh uncountable sums of money from "the web". The major browser vendors have pretty much delegated documenting how to develop against the browser platform to MDN. Microsoft explicitly I believe? This entire endeavor should be funded by corp contributions IMHO.
This massive effort to monetize MDN through the "little guy" seems super strange to me. How 'bout some blog posts about how you plan to get Apple, Microsoft, and Google to foot the entire bill for the operation?
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the first thing I did. It doesn't revert to the old behaviour.
It's documented to do so, and it works for me. What part isn't working for you?
It just doesn't revert to the old download.
As I said, the first thing I did when I saw the release notes was checking how to go back to the old settings. I tried that on 2 computers, both using linux (Ubuntu and PopOS), without any luck.
It doesn't ask me anymore what if I want to open the file or save it.
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#234> Collections: Find what you need fast with our new collections feature.
Collection is a feature we see in more an more knowledge sharing tools. Biggest user of that feature today is probably pinterest. The two usages that you can use them for is curation and quick retrieval. If you strip the collaborative part (curation) then YOU JUST reinvent bookmarks. Congrats mdn
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#235I was sitting on the train yesterday, when I opened a tab with a page from MDN that was already loaded. It quickly jumped to 'cannot connect' even though I didn't refresh. I wondered why it did that, but it makes perfect sense now. Now I use Zeal[1] to still have the documentation available offline. [1]: https://zealdocs.org/
There are explanations for that that aren’t as nefarious as what you’re implying.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one. It's a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
But she’s the chairwoman and has full control. I think we’re arguing semantics here. She controls everything. Including her own comp.
That's not how non-profits work. There's a board of directors:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/leadership/
If the board were to decide that Mitchell's time as leader was done, they could do so.
Re: MDN Plus
#237I don't feel anyone should need to personally "donate" to MDN or feel compelled to out of some sense of moral obligation; or any other reason for that matter. This isn't a donation per-say, but many on here seem to not care one iota about the features but still express a sentiment to want to "donate".. The major players make nigh uncountable sums of money from "the web". The major browser vendors have pretty much del…
> This entire endeavor should be funded by corp contributions IMHO.
Any entity will tailor the value it provides to the desires of its benefactors. So, if you would like MDN content focused on AMP, ads, and the metaverse, then this sounds like a good approach.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
(unrelated to the main topic) > The other day I wanted to learn Svelte... Any highlight(s) regarding positive/negative experiences that you had with Svelte so far? Asking because it's on my to-do list for my future frontend (bought 2 books about it, but pending to be read as I'm currently first trying to assimilate "Rust" to program the backends) and I ended up selecting Svelte as potential best candidate after havin…
> Any highlight(s) regarding positive/negative experiences that you had with Svelte so far? Sveltekit was a bit of a pain to get running, but using svelte itself has been insanely nice. I got an entire internal website up and running with a bunch of cool functionality in ~3 days. The state management with Redux alone would have taken that long if I was using React. Being able to just use regular HTML is also nice. Th…
Just fyi, there is no need to use Redux just because you're using React.
If it's a pretty simple case, you can use the built in `useReducer`[0]. Or if you want something that'll scale but that's much more lightweight than Redux, I'd recommend Zustand[1].
[0] https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#usereducer [1] https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand
Re: MDN Plus
#239Why is it region-locked? I'm in Japan—looking at the English page—and the Plus page says it's not available in my region.
Re: MDN Plus
#240I don't feel anyone should need to personally "donate" to MDN or feel compelled to out of some sense of moral obligation; or any other reason for that matter. This isn't a donation per-say, but many on here seem to not care one iota about the features but still express a sentiment to want to "donate".. The major players make nigh uncountable sums of money from "the web". The major browser vendors have pretty much del…
> This entire endeavor should be funded by corp contributions IMHO. Any entity will tailor the value it provides to the desires of its benefactors. So, if you would like MDN content focused on AMP, ads, and the metaverse, then this sounds like a good approach.
All of those companies want knowledgable developers as well as helping their own developers. They have enough incentive and self interest to fund MDN without having them focus on corp products.