- From: John Colby <John.colby@btinternet.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:26:32 +0000
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
- Cc: public-evangelist@w3.org
At 17:17 30/12/2002 -0500, Brant Langer Gurganus wrote: >John Colby wrote: > >> >>At 11:18 30/12/2002 -0500, Brant wrote: >> >>>Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design wrote: >>> >>>>It's great how XHTML is progressing with version 2 etc. but it strikes me >>>>that while the W3C is taking the specs into the future the majority of the >>>>Web Development world is lagging miles behind. >> >> >>>>For example, a college near to me teaches Web Design. They teach HTML not >>>>XHTML. People come out of there happily writing <br> tags and not closing >>>>their <p> tags and some will go on to create Web sites. >> >> >>>>For my part I've started a series of articles aimed at teaching XHTML to >>>>beginners, if anyone is interested it's at: >>>>http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/web-design-xhtml-1-1.html >>>By the time the textbook is printed, it is probably out-of-date and if >>>adopted, it takes about five years before new text books are adopted. >>>In the worst cases, Web design education is at least six years behind >>>the Web specifications. That is why you still see people writing >>>presentationally using invalid HTML 3.2 through a Web editor. Such is >>>the case with my school. Despite all my efforts, they fail to realize >>>that HTML is a markup language that adds meaning, not fancy colors. >> >> >>I'd appreciate anyone's views on this and your opinion of this type of >>approach, both for learning style and toolsets, bearing in mind that this >>is classroom teaching by lecture and workshop (it may expand later into >>print and web media) and is intended to be part of a degree course. > >Sounds good. Only problem with Top Style is that it is not monetarily >free, but it is definitely good. I do most of my development personally >with either jEdit or Amaya. jEdit is also in Java so it is cross-platform. I'll try jEdit - and of course you're right about the advantages of Amaya - but TopStyle does give an educational discount. And better, the authors can make in un-nickable Still - thanks for the views - more homework for me. Regards John John Colby john.colby@uce.ac.uk (active early January) Lecturer in Computing, University of Central England, Franchise Street Perry Barr, Birmingham B42 2SU phone +44 (0)121 331 5000 john@colbyweb.co.uk 4 Ambion Rise, Market Bosworth, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV13 0NY Phone +44 (0) 1455 290271, mobile 0771 114 1621 website http://www.colbyweb.co.uk
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