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I find w3schools dumbs it down a bit too much in certain cases and sort of gets in the way of finding the info you want. Compare https://www.w3schools.com/jsre
by osrec 8y ago
I find w3schools dumbs it down a bit too much in certain cases and sort of gets in the way of finding the info you want.
Compare https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_substring.asp https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_substring.asp with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/substring https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
The MDN doc allows you to run the code there and then - no jumping around to a "Try it yourself" page. Also, MDN gets to the syntax quickly - with w3schools, I have to search for the syntax in amongst a bunch of other junk that I really don't care about at that moment (like browser compatibility).
To a seasoned dev, MDN feels clear, w3s feels like a confusing mess. Maybe for early stage devs it's the other way round?
- onli 8y agoBoth of them seem to be equally useful to me. Both show the one thing I search the most at the top: The example.
- osrec 8y agoIn w3schools, "Definition and Usage" starts referring to "start" and "end" parameters before even mentioning them. It's really quite annoying to read that first and then see the syntax...