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None of the altenatives listed by W3Fools appear to counter the overwhelming advantage of W3Schools in that you can quickly look up information on a given html attribute or css selector. The site is essentially one big cheat-sheet.

Unless W3Fools puts up a credible alternative (the open wiki demand is unlikely to be entertained for an instant) then the war would seem to over just as the first shots are being fired.

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HTMLDog and Sitepoint are much better direct lookup for beginner's resources.

The Google videos are great tutorials for beginners.

And when you want to get down and dirty with the specifics and specs, the W3C, Opera, and Mozilla docs are there to help.

There's absolutely no reason to use W3Schools considering the awful amount of inaccuracies and rotten advice they teach to people starting out.

What's wrong with Mozilla Developer Network HTML and CSS references?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS_Reference

Granted, the HTML reference doesn't have by attribute directory.

Atleast Global attributes are listed. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Global_attributes The rest should be easy to find in conjunction with some element.

Couple of clever things about W3schools learning experience that are missing from Mozilla's site:

- Working examples. W3Schools leads with them - Mozilla doesn't seem to have any.

- The 'try it yourself' feature. Nothing cements learning like playing around with the concepts for yourself.

compare the img entry for both:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/img

Thanks very much for that feedback. I'm summarizing the discussion in order to deliver some actionable feedback to the Mozilla team. :)

I couldn't find any tutorials for beginners on Mozilla's site.

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