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> Mozilla Developer Network is somewhat ambiguous MDN is less ambiguous?
by soperj 3y ago
> Mozilla Developer Network is somewhat ambiguous
MDN is less ambiguous?
- mort96 3y agoYeah. MDN is just a name, you learn what MDN means and you know it, like you learned what Apple means or what Windows means. "Mozilla Developer Network" sounds more like a description that you're supposed to interpret the meaning of, and one natural interpretation is the network for Mozilla developers, and another is that it's a network for people developing for Mozilla platforms, maybe to do with Firefox add-ons. I'd maybe call it "misleading" more than "ambiguous" but meh.
- Angostura 3y ago> you learn what MDN means "What's MDN stand far?" "Mozilla Developer Network"
- mort96 3y agoThat's the point: it doesn't.
- Aeolun 3y agoI mean, even if you are not aware of that and you start wondering what MDN is an acronym for, that’s the obvious result to arrive at?
- mort96 3y agoAnd so what? It's not like they can fix the fact that there are old websites with outdated information on them, so people who are looking for what MDN means will find some outdated sources, yeah. Changing an initialism to a proper name takes time, that's not surprising.
- lupire 3y agoIt is easier to displace than destroy previous meaning. Thers what backronyms are for.