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• lea@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun fact: w3schools has nothing to do with w3c and there used to be a whole website dedicated to giving them shit.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly I have much less of a problem with some degree of inaccurate info than wasting my time by not immediately geting to the point in concisely giving me the bit of syntax I was searching for to begin with. That’s what they’ve always got right that other websites were getting wrong.

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  • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh so I have absolutely no reason to even like w3c at all? Dont use w3cschools much anymore these days. I know they have other stuff for more languages but theres better resources when it comes to those.

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    • dpkonofa@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s your issue with the W3C?

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      • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They allowed for the inclusion of DRM into HTML5. This DRM is not open-source, can't even be source audited and refused to back down. Such a move caused the EFF (electronic frontier foundation) to resign from the group. Here's the EFF's letter where they outline these issues if you want to give it a read: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

        I could also write about them bowing to Google but the DRM thing annoys me more.

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  • Tag365@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure that trademarks were invented so companies could prevent confusion like this by using the legal system. That way no-one can try profiting off a similar branding, and no-one can harm their reputation by making poor products apparently in another company’s name. W3C has a trademark registration for their name. www.w3.org/trademarks/

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• Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  May I present the super alternative:

  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML

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  • cbarrick@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Big +1 for MDN.

    The Mozilla Developer Network should be considered the standard reference for frontend HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

    (Aside from, you know, the actual standards. But those documents aren’t exactly approachable for new developers.)

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    • DarkenLM@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It isn't?

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  • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh yeah. Forgot that exists. Their image-border generator was far better than the w3c equivalent.

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