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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/09/06 12:58
John Dunlop wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle:
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> [after I said that I don't think I would recommend W3Schools - J.D.]
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>>Based on a single course.
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> Here's what I meant. If W3Schools - that group of three Norwegian
> authors - allows an HTML tutorial of that quality to be associated with
> them, I would be wary of other tutorials written by them. That's all.
> You then read far too much between the lines and decided that in saying
> this I "disparaged" their PHP tutorial.
>
I'm just reading what you wrote. Nothing more, nothing less.
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>>If you're going to criticize, you should offer alternatives.
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> Don't you think criticism alone could help someone? If nothing else,
> wouldn't it make someone think twice about W3Schools who would
> otherwise take what they say as gospel?
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Not if the criticism is based on the contents of a completely different
course. Now if they were asking about PHP courses and you responded
with criticism specific to the PHP course, that would be appropriate.
What you said is like me saying "Don't believe everything John Posts.
He has some bad responses in the xxx newsgroup" - where xxx is
completely unrelated to PHP.
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>>Otherwise you're just trolling.
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> Can't we keep this civilised?
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It is.
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>>But you tell people not to recommend w3schools based on what you admit
>>is looking at a single course.
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> Geez, Jerry, you ain't half draggin' this out! Nowhere did I _tell_
> anyone not to recommend W3Schools. I said that I don't think _I_ would
> recommend it, 'especially if their HTML tutorial is anything to go by'.
> Like it or lump it.
>
Yep. I don't like it, and I called you on it. Like it or lump it.
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