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Mozilla Announces Web Development Learning Initiative

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-do-all-the-cat-pictures-come-from dept.

bonch writes "Mozilla has announced Webmaker, a web development initiative aimed at teaching the average user the building blocks of the web. Users can join a 'code party' and learn web development with provided authoring tools, and existing developers can volunteer to run their own events. To kick it off, Mozilla is announcing the Summer Code Party starting June 23."

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  1. Oh God... by Cryacin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This give me flashbacks to what the "average user" produced back in the day, armed and dangerous with FrontPage.

    Please, for the sake of my retinas, I hope that something better comes out of this.

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    1. Re:Oh God... by Johann+Lau · · Score: 5, Informative

      Oh, you mean like when you teach people to read and write, they sometimes write crummy stuff? Funny, the way I see it, that's still better than what they wrote before -- namely nothing. Kinda like someone who makes a website with blue text on green background is still an improvement over someone who doesn't know how to make a website at all.

      And frankly, look at Slashdot, look at Facebook, look at any fucking page Google ever made, look at Stackoverflow, look at Reddit, and so on.. 99% of the sites we don't even blink at are utter crap. They're either white with no separators, or with separators that crawled out of the ass of a blind man, and then died. Blue text on green background would be an improvement in a lot of cases.

      Mozilla websites on the other hand I can't complain about, from the top off my head -- at least they're constantly switching it up and try to keep it pretty in a ^_^ way. So if anyone should do something like this, let it be them. But regardless of that: I'd rather read more websites with mediocre design coming from genuine humans, than have everybody know how to play it safe, or how to install a wordpress fucking theme, or how to just use facebook instead. Fuck all that stuff, and the whores it rode in on, too. /rant :D

  2. Accept-Language by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you think they could teach the fucktards over at Google what the Accept-Language header is for?

    That way they could stop guessing which language I want to see based on where I happen to be at any particular time.

    Kthxbye.

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