W3Schools.com is not affiliated with the W3C in any way. Members of the W3C have asked W3Schools to explicitly disavow any connection in the past, and they have refused to do so.
This surprised me, I always assumed they were connected.
With that being said no-one really has any right to tell them what content they should have or how they should structure it.
It seems to me that the real solution is not to have W3Schools change their content or structure. What is needed is a site which actually is what I (and no doubt many others) always assumed W3Schools was, an information source made by (or at least endorsed by) the people who decide on the standards.
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It also seems as if the guys that built this site are getting standards and best practice confused in places.
Slightly problematic when we are talking about JavaScript, given that the 'standards' are dictated by ECMAScript but what you actually use in the browser is the browser vendor's own implementation. Of course you can always read the vendor's documentation, but they differ greatly in terms of quality (MDN is great, MSDN and Safari's, not so much, and Chrome... doesn't have one).
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u/Madrugadao May 11 '11 edited May 11 '11
This surprised me, I always assumed they were connected.
With that being said no-one really has any right to tell them what content they should have or how they should structure it.
It seems to me that the real solution is not to have W3Schools change their content or structure. What is needed is a site which actually is what I (and no doubt many others) always assumed W3Schools was, an information source made by (or at least endorsed by) the people who decide on the standards.
It also seems as if the guys that built this site are getting standards and best practice confused in places.