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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by Grue3 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:12PM (#14921475)
w3schools won because they have absolutely nailed their design. Compare:

https://www.w3schools.com/JSREF/jsref_slice_array.asp

The very first thing is an example. The contrast of the fonts is easy on the eyes. You'll be definitely writing code using this method within minutes.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...

The very first thing you see is a huge green box "Why does MDN look different?", which is completely irrelevant to what I'm looking for. Scrolling down reveals thin gray on gray fonts which make the page hard to read. The amount of information is excessive if you're in a hurry.

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