Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dr J R Stockton Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Maintainer of the FAQ Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:03:10 +0000 Organization: Home Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <46247081-75ce-430c-8319-459ddcdf17fe@bx4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: JfH6RRPWQh8XzArFI0xgxA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Turnpike/6.05-S () X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:17820 In comp.lang.javascript message , Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:38:24, Jeff North posted: > >I just googled 'How do I format a Date object with javascript?' FAQ >entry 5.1. Google returned this as the 185th search result. The top 2 >sites were stackoverflow and (heaven forbid) w3schools. > >Picking another random topic from the FAQ, 'How can I disable the back >button in a web browser?' (entry 10.1). Google returned the jibbering >FAQ entry at number 418. > >Another entry 'How can I see in javascript if a web browser accepts >cookies?' (entry 9.6) - Google is 365. > >Do you see a trend here? The FAQ isn't getting the hits so why bother >maintaining something that very few people know about? Non sequitur, There is no reason to expect Googlers to use the actual subject line of an existing FAQ entry, especially when the latter was composed on the wrong side of the Atlantic (or, in your case, Pacific). >I recommend that the FAQ should only contain section 1,2,3 and 14. The >rest should be discarded because other sites are more dynamic with the >help and have more up to date information. The other sections contain, largely, material which has for a considerable while been contemplated and fettled by experts, some of whom can also write good English. Many other sites contain the newly- minted erroneous witterings of the infantile. Information should not be discarded because it is old; only because it is wrong. Newbies, and the absent-minded, still need the old stuff. -- (c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. Mail via homepage. Turnpike v6.05 MIME. Web - FAQqish topics, acronyms and links; Astro stuff via astron-1.htm, gravity0.htm ; quotings.htm, pascal.htm, etc. No Encoding. Quotes before replies. Snip well. Write clearly. Don't Mail News.