Re: Got keep learning or being professional with Web standards

--- Douglas Clifton <dwclifton@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 11/22/05, Rob Lowe <Rob@dotcom-multimedia.com>
> wrote:
> >  "This is pretty much true for any profession,
> > especially technology because it changes so
> quickly. 6
> > months later, whatever you know now could be
> obsolete.
> > The important thing is to learn the methodologies,
> as
> > those can be applicable to new technologies."
> 
> The flipside to this argument is the time it takes
> for new
> technologies to become adopted or accepted. From the
> standpoint of software development, the time it
> takes
> for software to become stable enough to be
> considered
> relatively free of defects.
> 
> One example of the former is XHTML, how long has it
> been
> since the W3C released the recommendation as a
> replacement
> for HTML and what percentage of all pages are still
> HTML?
> 
> Economics drives, or rather slows down, this process
> as
> well. The Web is evolutionary, not revolutionary.
> 

True, but is the open standards engineer that is the
revolutionary :)



Anthony Ettinger
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