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Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by tambourine_man on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:05PM (#16615491)
I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I actually like W3schools. Most of their infamous errors are gone and they are usually more “to the point” than Mozilla docs, which are a sometimes too prolific and not as clear.
Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by koboll on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:01PM (#16615725)
It's "to the point" in the sense of being a more concise basic introduction. But MDN hits the right balance of being comprehensive yet accessible in a way nothing else does.

Plus W3Schools' very name is an SEO hack, so their Google rank is built upon fundamental dishonesty.

Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by pjc50 on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:40AM (#16617395)
How is "w3schools" an SEO hack more than any other name?
Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by oevi on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:47AM (#16617417)
Because it implies an association with the W3C
Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by admax88q on Sunday March 18, 2018 @11:02PM (#16615967)
All my web platforms searches are now "mdn <web-thing>" cause w3schools is never informative enough for me.
Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by iamdave on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:27AM (#16616332)
I actually have a couple of bash scripts just for this when I want to look something up specifically at mdn, and thought about expanding it to stack overflow and reddit.

What's that? Why yes I have heard the phrase 'bikeshedding', why do you ask? ;)

Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by andrewaylett on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:02AM (#16617237)
DDG's `!` searches are your friend:

`!mdn whatever` will search MDN. Similarly !so, !reddit and a whole lot more.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by exodust on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:33AM (#16618204)
I like W3schools too, you're correct it's better these days. The site has helped me a lot when I needed to quickly get help usually with CSS or HTML. I like the "try it yourself" feature, and the examples are usually good. Not sure how good it is for JS and Jquery, I usually use Jquery.com and stackoverflow for JS.
Re:“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” by kowdermeister on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:09PM (#16615753)
The biggest problem with that site is that it's sometimes good. Sometimes. I never know that before I click if the required info is there or not or it's good enough or still relevant. With MDN my expectations are high but they are always matched.

That's why I installed the W3Schools removal chrome extension :)