W3schools.dev Redirects to Mozilla Developer Network

Re:W3schools.dev Redirects to Mozilla Developer Network by osrec on Friday March 01, 2019 @09:49AM (#19281084)

I find w3schools dumbs it down a bit too much in certain cases and sort of gets in the way of finding the info you want.

Compare https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_substring.asp with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

The MDN doc allows you to run the code there and then - no jumping around to a "Try it yourself" page. Also, MDN gets to the syntax quickly - with w3schools, I have to search for the syntax in amongst a bunch of other junk that I really don't care about at that moment (like browser compatibility).

To a seasoned dev, MDN feels clear, w3s feels like a confusing mess. Maybe for early stage devs it's the other way round?

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Re:W3schools.dev Redirects to Mozilla Developer Network by onli on Friday March 01, 2019 @09:51AM (#19281107)

Both of them seem to be equally useful to me. Both show the one thing I search the most at the top: The example.

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Re:W3schools.dev Redirects to Mozilla Developer Network by osrec on Friday March 01, 2019 @09:58AM (#19281172)

In w3schools, "Definition and Usage" starts referring to "start" and "end" parameters before even mentioning them. It's really quite annoying to read that first and then see the syntax...

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