Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/06/06 17:57

John Dunlop wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle:
>
>
>>The discussion was about PHP tutorials, and Erwin the courses at w3schools.
>
>
> _When_? We didn't start off talking about PHP tutorials. I brought
> up the W3Schools' PHP tutorial first, because I thought that a
> discussion of it would be appreciated. You then turned my criticism of
> their HTML tutorial specifically and W3Schools in general, by some
> weird logic, into an attack on their PHP tutorial. I did not, and
> would not, "disparage" or otherwise comment on their PHP tutorial
> before reading it.
>

In case you forgot, here's your statement.

Don't think I'd recommend W3Schools, Erwin, especially if their HTML
tutorial is anything to go by.

>
>>And you had to hop in there and comment about how you would not
>>recommend w3schools - based on your experience with a single course.
>
>
> Yes, if that is the quality of tutorial churned out by W3Schools.
>

Based on a single course.

>
>>And you don't offer any alternatives.
>
>
> Does my criticism not stand whether or not I offer any alternatives?
>

If you're going to criticize, you should offer alternatives. Otherwise
you're just trolling.

>
>>And if you have a problem with one Microsoft product, do you claim ALL
>>products from Microsoft are bad?
>
>
> Of course not, but after two, three or more problematic products, you
> might begin to question the company as a whole.
>

But you tell people not to recommend w3schools based on what you admit
is looking at a single course.

>
>>Or if you use one thing from HotScripts, SourceForge or whatever, do you
>>claim everything they have is terrible?
>
>
> HotScripts and SourceForge are fundamentally different to W3Schools,
> or at least the image W3Schools projects, in so far as HotScripts and
> SourceForge host packages and products created by communities of
> developers, whereas W3Schools is three authors making money from
> writing tutorials.
>

Not really. The w3schools courses are not all created by one person,
either. And I don't see where they are making any money off of the
site. Look at their header:

"W3 Schools - The best things in life are free".

Or are you talking about the AdSense ads? I doubt they're making much
off of those, either.

> http://www.w3schools.com/about/about_refsnes.asp
>
> http://hotscripts.com/about/index.html
> http://sourceforge.net/docs/about
>

Sure, it's run by a consulting company. But I highly doubt they make
their living off of their website. They probably pay for their hosting
with AdSense - but not a whole lot more.

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