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fmax30 | 5 years ago

Mozilla MDN docs are my go-to resource for js related stuff, does this mean they won't be maintained and updated anymore?

To be honest, I would be more than willing to pay a reasonable monthly subscription fee to access their docs.

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Semaphor|5 years ago

It’s not only them anymore: "Mozilla brings Microsoft, Google, the W3C, Samsung together to create cross-browser documentation on MDN"

-- https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/10/18/mozilla-brings-micr...

stingraycharles|5 years ago

That’s a blog post from 2017. I wouldn’t be so sure it will continue under the Mozilla umbrella without them dedicating any people to it.

unknown|5 years ago

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claviska|5 years ago

That's at least a tiny bit of good news then. Thanks for clarifying that!

jrott|5 years ago

That is good news. Do any of the other companies have people working on MDN?

claudiulodro|5 years ago

I agree, these are the best JS docs around. I hope they continue maintaining them. The main alternative is W3 Schools, which is substantially worse (I blame their for-profit ad-supported business model, which doesn't necessarily incentivize thoroughness and depth)

dom96|5 years ago

I am constantly surprised to see Google ranking W3 Schools so highly. Does anyone know how they have managed to be ranked so high up?

CryoLogic|5 years ago

https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/ is much more comprehensive, and sadly very few ever read it.

Lots of functionality in the spec that isn't even possible to find on MDN or W3 Schools.

srik|5 years ago

A while ago they established an advisory board with members from institutions with deep pockets so if Mozilla were to abandon MDN entirely, chances are we might see a more democratized version emerge, which is a good thing. I'd wait till the board meets again this month. But hey if that didn't happen, MDN content so far is fairly open - CC-BY-SA, public domain and MIT, so some kinda fork is bound to popup.

uallo|5 years ago

MDN is a Wiki. Everybody can contribute.

wizzwizz4|5 years ago

Doesn't mean everybody will. Wikipedia is a weird special-case. I've contributed once to MDN, ever, and I use it all the time.

brundolf|5 years ago

Is the source data openly available, though? You can't exactly "fork" a wiki, normally. I'm concerned lots of crucial knowledge would be lost if Mozilla decided not to host it any more.

coreypreston|5 years ago

Same here, W3 pales in comparison, which is not to denigrate their work. It's been helpful many times.

MDN just has more accessible writing and notes on best practice.

chrisfinazzo|5 years ago

That's not an accident, IMO.

W3 docs started out, and I would argue, continues to be most relevant to people whose work it is to implement a browser.

Certainly, you can use them to learn how to use the various HTML, CSS, and JS standards, but this is where MDN - and even the Chromium and Webkit resources - are leaps ahead with practical examples you can use in your own code.

sushshshsh|5 years ago

Hope someone scrapes them and hosts them as a torrent now, I'm not sure where else to go for js documentation besides node.

greenie_beans|5 years ago

yeah, i google my questions about js/hmtl/css and always look for MDN docs. would be a huge loss to lose that