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A single GitHub repo made me stop using W3Schools
Man, I used W3Schools for like 3 years straight every time I needed to look up a basic HTML or CSS thing. It was just the first result on Google and I figured it was good enough for a beginner like me. Then last month a guy in a coding Discord mentioned that MDN Web Docs is actually maintained by the actual browser developers and is way more accurate. I went to check it out and the difference is wild - MDN has real examples that work in modern browsers, not some old code from 2012. I found this one page on CSS flexbox that explained the whole container vs item thing in a way that finally clicked for me after 6 months of confusion. W3Schools has some tutorials that are straight up missing important details like browser compatibility notes. Has anyone else made the switch and felt like they were missing out on better resources this whole time?
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