- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:26:43 +0200 (MEST)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> > and he refused to even look at the w3c standards > > and instead wanted to see a guide that > > was easier to understand. He's not a web developer, > > he's a meteoroligst student, I think that this is quite normal, since everyone starts with small steps. Nowadays, the only difference is that beginners (or unexperienced developers) have less opportunities to get a job and to move on, finding their own way to write reasonable and (W3C) standard conform code (although I know that some people will never). > Book publishers are in a commercial world and need to supply what people > want, not what is good for them. Absolutely right... But thank God, there are still some specialized houses publishing neither guidelines how to use Frontpage nor showing how to integrate a nice DHTML menu, and there are even some sites using strict and working code and even performing the balancing act between browser / backwards compatibility and valid source code. By the way, I guess there are not only a few people only demanding for a simple (and for some people unprofessional) book which is part of their learning strategy... first getting to know the matter, and then improving style. -- Me, I wouldn't namely buy, say, a XYZ Smalltalk book offering me 'Hello World' and showing me some code snippets, but I wouldn't start checking the source code of the language, either. I'd learn iteratively, like everybody does. Regards, Jens. <snip /> -- Jens Meiert Steubenstr. 28 D-26123 Oldenburg Mobil +49 (0)175 78 4146 5 Telefon +49 (0)441 99 86 147 Telefax +49 (0)89 1488 2325 91 Mail <jens@meiert.com> Internet <http://meiert.com>
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