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Same here - I used it when I was writing DHTML on top of PHP 5, then years later when writing my blog, then from time to time when I had to touch the frontend. It's a nice resource for refreshing your memory of the basics, because the basics are front and center (one could say there are only basics there...) without distracting discussions of implementation details. When I need a detailed reference, I go somewhere else.

There definitely were problematic articles on the site, and its biggest contribution to my career was probably teaching me to cross-check my sources. There's a list of problems and nitpicks here[1] - apparently all of these were fixed over the years, hence why it's archived.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110412103745/http://w3fools.co...



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