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The latest MDN recommendation is to use only width=device-width, with initial-scale being mostly redundant.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...


I've just learned that initial-scale was removed from the MDN recommendation only a few days ago... by the submitted article author!

https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/45479


Which was premature because most people have missed that initial-scale doesn’t actually default to 1: https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/45570

Some nice posts about his prediction on Jeremy Keith's blog:

https://adactio.com/journal/tags/longbets


Wow, that could be a post of it’s own


Jiki is a brand-new platform for learning to code. It's targeted at complete beginners and is the brainchild of Exercism co-founder, Jeremy Walker.


I think a hat-tip is due to freeCodeCamp for introducing Project Euler (along with Rosetta Code) to a new generation of programmers:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/project-euler/#project-eu...


i think its a decent environment to do the programs - ok restrictive to js but lets you focus on the problems


You're all getting a little confused!

This is an up-to-date guide demonstrating why the old deprecated Pikaday JavaScript Datepicker is no longer needed.


yep! I decided to repurpose the pikaday.com domain because it was still seeing a lot of traffic despite the project being unmaintained for years.


Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro.



This is the one that Hixie published back in 2006. It helped guide a lot of the early decision-making in the WHATWG when it came to proposing new tags for HTML5 in a bid to reduce the number of div's out there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060203035414/http://code.googl...

The mantle has now been passed to the HTTP Archive, whose Web Almanac includes a section on the popularity of HTML elements:

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/markup#elements

BTW: I got 97, which is 96 more than the number of friends I have :)


> BTW: I got 97

Looked up your name plus the word 'w3'. I am not surprised to find involvement in an HTML spec discussion :D The top result on duckduckgo was <https://github.com/validator/validator/issues/1433#issuecomm...>.


That's it! Exactly what I was thinking of.


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