- From: Brian Bober <netdemonz@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:47:17 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
--- Chris Moschini <Chris.Moschini@amdocs.com> wrote: > > I agree this is a very normal case. To write a standard that is complex (as > all modern W3C standards certainly are) then demand that every author of HTML > grasp all of its complexity before writing a character of HTML is a bit > snobbish. In the Web's beginnings, the above meteorologist may have been on > his way to becoming a serious Web Developer without realizing it. What then? > > If evangelism is part of the mission of the W3C (the recent comments in this > thread have begged such a mission), perhaps simplified documents ought to be > published with each standard, distilling, for example, XHTML 1.0 + CSS3 down > to the most basic pieces a beginning developer ought to know, and so, > explicitly state what a crappy "How to write webpages" book or crappy WYSIWYG > editor is missing the boat on when we say one or the other is a problem. > Unlike back in 1994, there are a lot of online guides now that are written by people that almost fully understand the standards. The question is: do people find them? I believe a good book is still the most comprehensive guide you can find, and if you are going to be a web developer, you want that even if you can find good tutorials on the web, and read the standards. Some books are better than others, and I wonder if any are recommended by w3c. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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