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Change is hard, naturally there will be some inherent backlash, but one thing I think is a step backwards is the Browser Compatibility table at the bottom. Previously, it had the browser version inline for the cell, now it is just a check mark. To see what version, you need to click on the cell to expand some "more info" section at the bottom. Knowing if a feature was very recently supported or has been supported for…
the landing page is mostly useless to me, I need an extra click to get to reference and guides. It's like a status page used for home page, the search can be on the top-right corner of each reference|guide page instead. Yes just go directly to reference|guide, why not?
on reference and guide pages, I hope there is a left and right arrow at both sides of each content page so I don't need scroll all the way down to the bottom then click on that small prev and next button to turn pages.
Some thoughts:
- The cleanliness and whitespace make it feel like information's been lost compared to the previous version. Probably just psychological and I'll get used to it.
- I wish the header search button was a search bar instead. While it looks cleaner, I actually had a moment where I thought they removed search completely. My preference would be to have a large, highly visible search bar in the header. Increasing the click/tap area would help as well, as I misclicked on the dark mode toggle.
space in the new design
for my taste.
> Warning: The tabindex attribute must not be used on the element. ... Why? I don't use MDN often, mostly just as reference material. I have enjoyed their documentation before, it's always been short and to the point with a few examples and it felt very complete. With this the first article I click on raises an odd question which I feel is either too much detail for reference or too little details for experts.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interactive-elements....
For now, one has no way to tell whether a given code snippet in MDN is licensed under CC0 or MIT.
Does nobody remember these announcements from the past 5 years? Why would MDN need a subscription service? Why are Google, MicroSoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. not hosting MDN for free on their cloud platforms? Heck, why are they not fighting over the privilege to host it and put a big “Hosted on Azure” link at the bottom of every page? Why are these multi billion dollar companies not funding MDN when they claim in press r…