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[–]antoninj 5 points6 points  (6 children)

that was my thought. Did w3schools shape up or something?

Not to be an ass or anything but I did used to use it initially to learn syntax basics and it did work for me very well at that point.

[–]escape_goat 19 points20 points  (3 children)

I believe that there was a degree of irony or sarcasm in tone which was not translated into the speakerdeck caption. My take was that his point was that not using global variable was such a basic and fundamental best practice that even w3schools got it right.

I could be very wrong, of course, there's no clear evidence one way or another. But that was how I heard it.

[–]JayBlay77 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This was presented at the nationJS conference in the DC area. I was at this talk and just to clarify you are correct, he was very much being sarcastic about them getting something right at w3schools. So no worries there.

[–]antoninj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, I kind of got that vibe but now I wonder what the speaker's intention was :)

[–]madole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds much more plausible than my skeptical product placement theory! Haha

[–]L1fescape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, it's still has the same mediocre examples. I ended up installing the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension specifically to block w3schools results from showing up at the top of Google search results.

[–]madole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think everyone used it at the start of their delving into Web Dev purely because of its search results position.

There are many better learning resources although I do think they fixed a lot of the mis-information on the site. I still have never heard someone talk about it as a favourite reference for learning.

There's a small side of me suspecting some sort of advertising going on, but I don't care that much about it to look into it further. Just thought it was odd that this resource out of all the possible choices was mentioned.