From: Hans-Georg Michna on
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:26:14 -0800, Garrett Smith wrote:

>rf wrote:

>> "Hans-Georg Michna" <hans-georgNoEmailPlease(a)michna.com> wrote in message
>> news:pk5er5h2qc4u325f8i8dfadft9d2vpd6pi(a)4ax.com...

>>> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 00:57:31 -0700, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

>>>> According to
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_whereto.asp

>> In addition to what Hans-Georg has so admirally pointed out: Don't believe
>> many of the things that W3schools says. The site is full of errors.

>Obvious, glaring errors.
>
>THe FAQ used to contain w3schools links. THere was a long time nagging
>request to remove these links. I cannot recall any complaints when that
>request was fulfilled.

The sad thing about it is that w3schools.com is very well
organized, better than any other web site like that.

It is sad that w3scholos.com is so obsolete, incomplete, and
frequently wrong. The thought went through my mind to create a
similar web site, aping their form, but filling it with better,
more complete, and less erroneous information, but I don't have
that kind of time left over. I also thought about a wiki, so
more people could collaborate to create the site.

There is a scarcity of good JavaScript and DOM documentation on
the web. The standards sites are incomplete, because they lack
the common pseudo-standards that everybody uses. The other
sites, like javascriptkit.com, are not as well organized, not
continuously maintained, etc.

The only fairly good one,
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Web_Development , is geared
towards one particular browser, Firefox, or its engine, is
sometimes slow or unresponsive, and is not as well organized as
w3schools.com, but it is still about the best we have.

Anybody want to open up a JavaScript and DOM documentation
project?

Hans-Georg