Ideal way to learn CSS inside out.

[Cactus]

Get out of the wrong side of bed? Dog died?

Well done on you excellent job of stuffing hay into a shirt and pants and creating that strawman, because of course I said you should ignore everything else and just copy paste from w3 or stack overflow.

If that was your take from that video, posted in response to your stack exchange link, you have a long way to go.

from your example links, for a beginner like you, the w3 would be the first one you should use, and then supplement that with the webplatform link.

I apologize for attacking you earlier. It was wrong of me.

I feel as if W3Schools is pushed too much. It's the first link on google in most cases, but hardly teaches proper fundamentals. I see W3Schools as a "jump start" way of learning and want to discourage it. Rather take your time and learn properly. Understand what you learn and why it's there. That's my issue with it.

 

[_kabal_]

no problem.

the great thing about the internet is that there are so many cross references available.

I fully agree that W3Schools is not the be all and end all perfect solution. There is no doubt however that it is a handy reference. You can always go somewhere else if you really want to deep dive into a topic

I have issue with crap like this:

I have read and heard everywhere that W3schools is rubbish and I have seen it as well, lots of outdated usage when I last checked and incorrect usage as well.

 

[Cactus]

My last 2c in this topic which might also be useful is:

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/css-intro
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/css3-in-depth

I've not done these courses, but I expect them to be of good quality. My employer endorse pluralsight very often and encourage us to make use of it on their expense. (It's not free)

I'm out.

 

[adrianx]

There's even a few "W3Schools Hider" extensions in the Firefox/Chrome Web Stores.

 

[TheJman]

Any thoughts on Code Academy?

 

[Thor]

no problem.

the great thing about the internet is that there are so many cross references available.

I fully agree that W3Schools is not the be all and end all perfect solution. There is no doubt however that it is a handy reference. You can always go somewhere else if you really want to deep dive into a topic

I have issue with crap like this:

Here is an example:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_howto.asp

^ Well they are way behind as this is the recommended way, yet no reference on W3 whatsoever:

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/OptimizeCSSDelivery#recommendations

 

[rward]

Here is an example:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_howto.asp

^ Well they are way behind as this is the recommended way, yet no reference on W3 whatsoever:

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/OptimizeCSSDelivery#recommendations

w3schools do cover in-lining, they just call it an internal style sheet. Same thing.

What google are talking about is optimisation, something a bit different to "how to do/use css"

 

[_kabal_]

Here is an example:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_howto.asp

^ Well they are way behind as this is the recommended way, yet no reference on W3 whatsoever:

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/OptimizeCSSDelivery#recommendations

Did you read those 2 pages? Did you understand them?

In your mind, how is an "api" reference superceded by a performance optimization recommendation?

 

[DA-LION-619]

Did you read those 2 pages? Did you understand them?

https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/704303808789098496

 

[eternaloptimist]

but most of the w3schools issues were from waaaaaay back. I find them decent now ...
https://github.com/paulirish/w3fools/issues/50