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> Fundamentally, maintaining MDN is costly because of the rate of instability in rapidly changing browser APIs. Browser APIs change far less than the impressio
by cxr 5y ago
> Fundamentally, maintaining MDN is costly because of the rate of instability in rapidly changing browser APIs.
Browser APIs change far less than the impression that most people have. (That impression is mostly the result of churn in what's fashionable on GitHub/Twitter this month, i.e. non-standards-based code from arbitrary projects that don't have anything to do with the browser except that they themselves are built to run in the browser.) Browser APIs are mostly cumulative.
The places where that isn't true are almost all experimental APIs. Arguably, these shouldn't be "advertised" within the reference to begin with—even before we ever consider the cost of keeping those pages up-to-date.