Is MDN not as good now?
Posted by mogussee@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 6 comments
I am watching an old js course (2020) and the guy in the course opens mdn to check multiple events and and there is a table of many events and when i open the same page (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events) that table is replaced with a different table and that does not help it does not state the different events in one place just tell what are different events. Also tell me some documentation for js where i can discover more new things because mdn is like all theory and dosent tell a lot about different methods (or other things) in one place. You would have to go on a hunt in that big website to find something new
EmperorLlamaLegs@reddit
I'm not sure what you mean. Between the table on MDN and the link on MDN to the spec, what else could you want?
What information was in the other table that's missing from this one?
mogussee@reddit (OP)
thnx for the link, also i am finding it hard to navigate on mdn so any tips on how to will be helpful
EmperorLlamaLegs@reddit
MDN seems to have category pages that give you more of an overview, then specific pages that have the nitty gritty details you need to get your code written. For example "Events" is about the events system in general, but if you are looking for AN event to use. The "Event" page is more useful.
There are is a lot of documentation that follows this pattern, you get used to it and don't really think about it too much after a while.
throwaway6560192@reddit
They just split it into categories. If you follow the link in the right-hand side of each entry in the table, it'll have the full documentation for that type which includes all events on it.
I guess the old page was easier to Ctrl+F, which is definitely useful.
mogussee@reddit (OP)
oh yeah fount it, my bad. thnx
boomer1204@reddit
Yeah MDN is still the GOAT in my opinion. Tough at the beginning because when we started we didn't know what we were doing and you just got caught in a "weird" spec page but don't let that deter you and maybe play around to get a little more "comfortable" with it especially outside of just following a course/tutorial exactly.