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I agree. I feel like going to MDN to quickly look up syntax is like trying to kill a fly with a handgun.
by booleandilemma 9y ago
I agree. I feel like going to MDN to quickly look up syntax is like trying to kill a fly with a handgun.
- megalodon 9y agoI’m quite the opposite, I feel like MDN is the only sane resource in an ocean of opinionated crap. Not saying it covers everything but for syntax it’s practically the only place I visit.
- weberc2 9y agoSame here. For syntax and quick examples, I find w3schools much harder to parse than MDN. Maybe there's more noise in w3schools, or maybe the layout/design of MDN are better for these purposes.
- llccbb 9y agoBut going to w3schools is like trying to kill a fly with a flyswatter with a dashed red border of weight 2px. Their examples are so basic, pre-canned, and repetitious between pages that you rarely see useful options and intricacies that each tag/property may posses. For super quick syntax checks ("Is it fill-opacity or opacity?") MDN might be a little overboard, but as any sort of reference beyond 3 line snippets it is the link that I always look for. I usually append MDN to the end of my searches for HTML/SVG help.