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You do you. I find MDN so much better that I hope they soon push w3schools off their first-hit-throne. > Either you are completely out of touch or you're going

by cies 5y ago

You do you. I find MDN so much better that I hope they soon push w3schools off their first-hit-throne. > Either you are completely out of touch or you're going to need to show some of the "low quality" examples from w3schools. Do you really need me for that? Here are "div" and "table" on both. https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.asp https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.asp https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_table.asp https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_table.asp https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/div https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/table https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ta... To me the difference is enormous (quality of writing, completeness, correct use of words, ads, noise on the page). But again: see for yourself. Now read back yous comment and see if your "What kind of logic is that?" and "I don't like something so no one should use it!" were reasonable sentences to throw at me.

jka 5y ago
Both seem fairly high quality to me, after reading the comments and viewing the pages from each site in comparison. I remember using w3schools to learn HTML probably about twenty years ago now, and the content hasn't changed much since then. MDN appears to have gone through two major transitions within the past year. Whether those qualities are good or bad depend on your perspective; whether one of them ranks above the other in terms of SEO depends on the algorithms used by the search engine in question.
archerx 5y ago
I still prefer the w3schools version, I feel like it is better because it is concise and get straight to the point without a ton of blah blah, if I want an encyclopedic type of reference (which is rare) I go to mdn, but most of the times I just need quick reference that gets to the point immediately. Also I forget the internet has ads, don't you have ublock origin installed? Yes, they were totally reasonable sentences to throw at you because you want something to fail because of your subjective opinion disregarding if anyone else might find that something useful, it seems a bit solipsistic. I'm not saying mdn should be blocked, I'm saying I'm happy both exists, do you see the difference?
- marcosdumay 5y ago
  If you don't want an encyclopedic reference, you can read the first section on MDN and move on. It's about as long and to the point as the w3schools article, and has all the rest of the content if you want to dig further. I don't think it should be blocked, but its content is almost always low quality, so it doesn't deserve the search rating it has. Its prominence is a strong symptom that search engines do not work very well.
  - cies 5y ago

by cies 5y ago

jka 5y ago

Both seem fairly high quality to me, after reading the comments and viewing the pages from each site in comparison. I remember using w3schools to learn HTML probably about twenty years ago now, and the content hasn't changed much since then. MDN appears to have gone through two major transitions within the past year. Whether those qualities are good or bad depend on your perspective; whether one of them ranks above the other in terms of SEO depends on the algorithms used by the search engine in question.

archerx 5y ago

I still prefer the w3schools version, I feel like it is better because it is concise and get straight to the point without a ton of blah blah, if I want an encyclopedic type of reference (which is rare) I go to mdn, but most of the times I just need quick reference that gets to the point immediately. Also I forget the internet has ads, don't you have ublock origin installed? Yes, they were totally reasonable sentences to throw at you because you want something to fail because of your subjective opinion disregarding if anyone else might find that something useful, it seems a bit solipsistic. I'm not saying mdn should be blocked, I'm saying I'm happy both exists, do you see the difference?

marcosdumay 5y ago
If you don't want an encyclopedic reference, you can read the first section on MDN and move on. It's about as long and to the point as the w3schools article, and has all the rest of the content if you want to dig further. I don't think it should be blocked, but its content is almost always low quality, so it doesn't deserve the search rating it has. Its prominence is a strong symptom that search engines do not work very well.
- cies 5y ago