<% // Returns a quote from a community member or web developer collected // for the MDN 10th Anniversary Campaign. // // Quotes are being provided by this macro to prevent edits that // misrepresent what the people contributing them said. // // Parameters: // $0 The quote number to return; this corresponds to a given quote. // // If the quate number isn't provided, a random quote is returned. var quoteList = [ { text: 'MDN has been an exceptional aid for the entire web community. It\’s where we go for authoritative docs we can always trust to be A+.', name: "Addy Osmani", url: "https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/621336454841503745" }, { text: 'I prepend "mdn" to my Google search pretty much by default. So this, kinda:
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}', name: "Roel N", url: "https://twitter.com/pixelambacht/status/621013436563111937" }, { text: 'Absolutely invaluable to me in writing my books, The Book of CSS3 and The Modern Web. I even gave thanks in the acknowledgements.', name: 'Peter Gasston', url: 'https://twitter.com/stopsatgreen/status/620736175318401024' }, { text: "I love MDN because I can't even remember the structure of APIs I designed.", name: "Jake Archibald", url: "https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/620987733524262912" }, { text: "I use MDN almost daily because my brain isn't suited to remembering every damn argument to every JavaScript function… yet.", name: "Remy Sharp", url: "https://twitter.com/rem/status/620974995355906048" }, { text: 'Whenever I want to know the "why" instead of the "how" MDN is the place to go.', name: "Christian Heilmann", url: "https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/621009648875868160" }, { text: '“Never memorize something that you can look up.” —Albert Einstein

He would have greatly appreciated MDN.

', name: "Brian Blakely", url: "https://twitter.com/brianblakely/status/620995523542142976" }, { text: "Mozilla docs for JavaScript are made from a mixture of gold and rainbows. Lots of rainbows. They're that magical.", name: "Nathan Dimitriades", url: "https://twitter.com/nathandim" } ]; var index = 0; // Get the index from the parameters if specified; otherwise, choose one // at random. if (arguments.length > 0) { index = $0; } else { index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quoteList.length); } if (index > quoteList.length-1) { index = (quoteList.length - 1) % index; } var quote = quoteList[index]; var attribution = ""; if (quote.url != undefined && quote.url.length != 0) { attribution = "" + quote.name + ""; } else { attribution = quote.name; } %>
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