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There's 2 pretty reasonable reasons for this: 1. MDN's quality is higher, and it's more comprehensive when it comes to new browser specifications, but it's muc
by lucideer 3y ago
There's 2 pretty reasonable reasons for this:
1. MDN's quality is higher, and it's more comprehensive when it comes to new browser specifications, but it's much less comprehensive in general technology/programming topics (e.g. W3Schools covers PHP which many working with e.g. Wordpress will dabble in alongside their HTML/CSS/JS).
2. Tenure. MDN's is much much more recent - W3Schools has been around forever.
W3Schools is a somewhat dodgy website with questionable quality, but it's hard to argue they've had a net-negative impact on educating programmers. I certainly learned a large chunk of my knowledge from W3Schools in the days before MDN docs existed in their current form.