Netscape DevEdge was in my opinion the most useful online reference for technologies like HTML, CSS, the DOM, and especially JavaScript (which Netscape created, of course).
I constantly used it when developing websites or Mozilla XUL applications; in my lack of foresight I never bothered to download the references to my computer. It was taken offline once AOL disbanded Netscape. So I was incredibly let down when this happened.
Now, thanks to the Mozilla Foundation’s hard work, DevEdge content will be making a comeback! It’ll probably get integrated into the voluminous amount of documentation already at mozilla.org, including the JavaScript 2.0 specification. Hopefully they’ll remember to make all this information more accessible; right now, I only find the newer documents via Google or at random. The incredibly antiquated documents, of course, are just a few clicks away from the homepage.
DevEdge was once located at developer.netscape.com; maybe we’ll see developer.mozilla.org grow to become a similarly useful resource.
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