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> Goals: Shame. This is a very interesting discussion, but shame should not be a motivation or goal. W3Schools' company is a business and despite the somewhat
by acangiano 16y ago
> Goals: Shame.
This is a very interesting discussion, but shame should not be a motivation or goal. W3Schools' company is a business and despite the somewhat lackluster quality of their output, improving the status quo, not shame, should be the real motivation behind this form of activism.
If you think you can do better while still remaining perfectly accessible to newcomers please do so, but live and let live, especially when the strongest accusations against the company are far from illegal or unethical. (Their certifications may be useless, but they aren't unethical, since they are not misrepresenting the entity issuing the certifications.)
StackOverflow managed to replace Expert-Exchange through quality and good ol' promotion, not through sabotage.
In my opinion, an effort to come up with such a replacement for W3Schools (or enabling an existing one to become much more prominent,) is far more noble, useful, and worthwhile than a W3SchoolsSucks.com or TruthAboutW3Schools.com could ever be.
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- tbranyen 16y agoExisting solutions already exist, but unfortunately search results are dominated by W3schools. Poor code examples and wrong information is why http://promotejs.com/ http://promotejs.com/ started. This is nothing new, the web needs nothing new. Learning about any modern web technology can be found online, but unfortunately people still venture into w3schools since it's top ranking. Also their exams are unethical and should be treated as fraud. If you know anything about any of the topics, take their pre-exam and see for yourself.