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Also the "manpage" does exist - it's the spec. But I've never met a single person who has ever directly read it.
by tenaciousDaniel 7y ago
Also the "manpage" does exist - it's the spec. But I've never met a single person who has ever directly read it.
- RussianCow 7y agoMDN does a pretty good job of distilling the web spec into readable documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
- mgkimsal 7y agoit's so 'readable' that a friend of mine is... reading it. Out loud. In to Soundcloud. (well, JS stuff anyway). https://soundcloud.com/user-956222694 https://soundcloud.com/user-956222694
- err4nt 7y agoI'm in the HTML specs and CSS specs every day :D - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ - https://drafts.csswg.org/ https://drafts.csswg.org/
- Retric 7y agoReading web specs at least once will save you a lot of time. You don’t need to memorize the things, but it helps learning about capabilities that are easy to miss and keywords that’s make searching far more efficient.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoI used to read the specs, but I think I gave that up about 15 years ago as no longer practical.
- megaremote 7y ago> But I've never met a single person who has ever directly read it. I love how this is a unit of measure now. "I have never met anyone with an iphone, so...".