Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by nzp on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:46AM
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My experience with exactly these and related terms has been almost opposite. Lately I needed to look up info on HTML and CSS a lot and not only am I constantly getting MDN results at the top, I usually get a snippet from the MDN page in the "instant answer" (or whatever it's called) box. Before searching for this stuff on DDG I never even realized how good of a resource MDN is (not that I actually needed much info on web related specs in the past).
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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by cpncrunch on Friday February 21, 2014 @01:02PM
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Try logging out of your DDG account (if you have one), and searching for "html table tag" (without quotes) and you'll see what I mean. MDN is nowhere to be found. If you see it, then DDG must be showing us different results for some reason.
I find MDN and w3schools about equal, although I do find w3schools is a bit better laid out and quicker to get the info I'm looking for. MDN certainly isn't perfect...I just had a quick look for some html5 stuff (MediaElementAudioSourceNode) and the page is missing on MDN. I find that w3.org is the only place that has full specs for all the html5 stuff, but it's pretty difficult to navigate.
Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by nzp on Friday February 21, 2014 @02:14PM
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I don't have an account. You're right, for this particular query there's no MDN in results. I just tried "css box-sizing" (the first thing that popped into my mind) and MDN is the 3rd result. The quick answer thingy shows SO questions. So it can definitely be a hit or miss thing.
I agree with what you write about w3.org, it's almost painful to navigate when you just need a quick reference.