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I've never heard of mdn before this thread somehow. But w3schools is perfect for looking up the things I tend to look up (mostly CSS or HTML attributes) and it'

by malyk 13y ago

I've never heard of mdn before this thread somehow. But w3schools is perfect for looking up the things I tend to look up (mostly CSS or HTML attributes) and it's really easy to parse. Plus it's always the first google result for me.

riquito 13y ago
What do you use then as "official" reference for Javascript?
panzi 13y ago
You never used MDN? How long are you developing web sites?
- dinkumthinkum 13y ago
  That's just not really needed, it's so elitist.
- malyk 13y ago
  Since 2001. Stackoverflow seems to be the place where my JS searches lead me.
- cpncrunch 13y ago
  I've been developing websites since 1996 myself, and MDN hasn't really been on my radar for an html reference. I did use it extensively back in 2009 when I was doing work with <canvas>, and back then MDN didn't really have a general html reference. I think it's only in the last couple of years that MDN has really developed their reference documentation. So, if you've always used MDN you really must be a young whippersnapper :) I think MDN has an advantage in that they've only really been around since HTML5 has become standardized, whereas w3schools has had to deal with the changing standards of html4/xhtml/html5.
  - davidbruant 13y ago
    "I think MDN has an advantage in that they've only really been around since HTML5 has become standardized" => HTML5 is not a standard. Nowhere near so. Whatever you mean by that, MDN is as old as Firefox anyway. "...whereas w3schools has had to deal with the changing standards of html4/xhtml/html5." => These differences are 99.99% additions, so don't impact documentation that much. In any case, documentations is more relevant is it documents implementations, not standards (which come after implementation most of the time, not the other way around until recently)

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I've never heard of mdn before this thread somehow. But w3schools is perfect for looking up the things I tend to look up (mostly CSS or HTML attributes) and it'

by malyk 13y ago

riquito 13y ago
What do you use then as "official" reference for Javascript?
panzi 13y ago
You never used MDN? How long are you developing web sites?
- dinkumthinkum 13y ago
  That's just not really needed, it's so elitist.
- malyk 13y ago
  Since 2001. Stackoverflow seems to be the place where my JS searches lead me.
- cpncrunch 13y ago
  I've been developing websites since 1996 myself, and MDN hasn't really been on my radar for an html reference. I did use it extensively back in 2009 when I was doing work with <canvas>, and back then MDN didn't really have a general html reference. I think it's only in the last couple of years that MDN has really developed their reference documentation. So, if you've always used MDN you really must be a young whippersnapper :) I think MDN has an advantage in that they've only really been around since HTML5 has become standardized, whereas w3schools has had to deal with the changing standards of html4/xhtml/html5.
  - davidbruant 13y ago
    "I think MDN has an advantage in that they've only really been around since HTML5 has become standardized" => HTML5 is not a standard. Nowhere near so. Whatever you mean by that, MDN is as old as Firefox anyway. "...whereas w3schools has had to deal with the changing standards of html4/xhtml/html5." => These differences are 99.99% additions, so don't impact documentation that much. In any case, documentations is more relevant is it documents implementations, not standards (which come after implementation most of the time, not the other way around until recently)