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W3schools is a cancer. They have old, outdated information. Their website, their content, and their business model is all a throwback to last decade. They si
by Lazare 15y ago
W3schools is a cancer. They have old, outdated information. Their website, their content, and their business model is all a throwback to last decade. They sit atop of the search results, doing nothing, and raking in cash while providing a poor service. Meanwhile, their very dominance sucks all the oxygen (page views, ad dollars) away, ensuring that better competitors can't grow.
What redeeming feature do they have? If you aren't easy to use, accurate, comprehensive, or responsive...how good a reference site are you?
I've yet to see anyone bash W3schools for no reason, but I see plenty of people defending them for no reason.
- jojopotato 15y agoIs there another alternative out there? I feel like the mozilla developer docs are the only thing that comes to mind offhand.
- driverdan 15y agoYou answered your own question. MDN has far better docs.
- Apocryphon 15y agoTizag, which is second in the results, is a pretty good resource.
- fuzzix 15y ago"Tizag, which is second in the results, is a pretty good resource." Their Perl tutorial set is pretty terrible. They call it "PERL" (it's Perl), they believe the latest stable version is 5.10 (it's 5.14) and the code samples are simply awful.
- DrJokepu 15y agohttp://www.w3.org/standards/ http://www.w3.org/standards/ of course.
- fady 15y agohtmldog: http://htmldog.com/ http://htmldog.com/ is good resource. i know this is a far stretch but they're some really good books out there for quick referencing...i know it's not as fast as opening a new tab, but some of the books: "the definitive guides" are great. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_sq_top?ie=UTF8&keywords=the%20definite%20guid%20html&index=blended&pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1565924924&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1J6TEHXCAXJZ8Z4SZS15 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_sq_top?ie=UTF8&#... i generally write code at my desk more so then on the go, so i always have those books handy
- nkron 15y agohttp://javascripture.com http://javascripture.com is a pretty quick reference for just javascript. http://dochub.io http://dochub.io has MDN docs plus some others in a nice, consistent view.
- isleyaardvark 15y agoThe Opera Web Standards Curriculum, though it isn't a reference, is a fantastic resource for beginners. Unfortunately they seem to have moved it onto w3c's domain and now it looks completely awful: http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page