It doesn’t look too great to be honest. It’s quite verbose and gets steps out of order. It starts out with loading a font from Google Fonts. <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Getting_started/Your_first_website/What_will_your_website_look_like" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...</a><p>Where MDN used to excel and for now still does, reference documentation, is also showing cracks, due to the recent changes at Mozilla. A long time contributor gave up. <a href="https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36294">https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36294</a>
Mozilla doesn't seem to care much about creating linkrot. They've previously deleted a bunch of historical docs such as their JavaScript engine release notes with changelog information.
Very ambitious of them: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Getting_started/Soft_skills/Collaboration_and_teamwork#getting_on_with_others" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...</a><p>and I think this is a soft joke: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Getting_started/Soft_skills/Job_interviews#finding_work_experience" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...</a> <i>it currently just says TODO</i>
Very confusing post. I took a look at their "Learn Web Development" section and I am confused as to why they link out to third parties when all the content that would be needed is pretty much already in the MDN knowledgebase on their own site.
The Neopets HTML Guide [1] remains the best beginner’s guide to Web development.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.neopets.com/help/html1.phtml" rel="nofollow">https://www.neopets.com/help/html1.phtml</a>
It's interesting when talking about the focus on supply chain safety that they've decided to only recommend core-js. From my perspective, it feels like core-js is the top candidate for the next left-pad / colors.js type author induced ecosystem failure given the author's past attitudes and financial issues.
I find a course like that overwhelming. If its for someone who knows nothing but is serious about learning this the course should go one way step by step to create and publish a website with an OS built in text editor.<p>Local dev is apache and a sites folder. they go and buy a shared hosting package for 5 to 10 dollareuros with a provider that gives them ssh access.<p>And you don't even mention any of the other ways to do this - they will find out about them in their own good time. You leave javascript out in this beginner course and you show them how to create a static site that loads in 1 second max on mobile pagespeed, gets 0 errors and 0 contrast errors on wavewebaim, an A+ on securityheaders and a proper dmarc rating on dmarcian.com<p>- and when they are done and see what a good looking blazing fast secure and accessible website they can make themselves while fully understanding how they did this, thats when the course can be called a learning experience.
> with the aim of making MDN more accessible to non-experts and helping to take new web developers from "beginner to comfortable".<p>I love this. Maybe there's still hope... Been doing web development for over a decade and I'm still not "comfortable" with it >.<
Is the page layout meaningfully different on some other device/browser?<p>I see less than 30% of my screen space being used for actual content. Dropped below 50% somewhere around the time they decided they like LLMs.