- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:10:22 +0100 (MET)
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
Gosh, there were lots of good points in this discussion. If I may add my two cents to it: * Regarding younger vs. older "professionals": Learning means making mistakes, and experience is priceless. There are definitely (young) people out there who think they "get it" (because they never used tables for layout purposes, for example), but this does not mean they really understand the problems. Those out there who are in business for half a decade or longer will have understood the problems. For them, hopefully, semantics isn't just a buzzword. * Education is the real issue. At least in Germany, you can't get a good education which teaches you Web Standards (which basically means semantics and standard compliance). Huh. And Web Standards are neither a big deal, nor are they the entire story - a real Web professional should also have at least fundamental knowledge in Accessibility and Usability (merely means processes). And that's not all, either - what about Design (in general), Architecture, Typography, Journalism, HCI, UX, Web Credibility, SEO, also technologies apart from (X)HTML and CSS. Ah, and there a lots of other interesting topics you could and should also use in your work (Psychology is no bad start, either, for example). * Well, education is also an issue when it comes to where people tend to look to go learning. If you really want to establish fundamental, reliable knowledge, blogs rarely help. Fora do neither. You need to read the specs, and look for other resources that are built by real experts, by luminaries, to be more precise. Well, how do you find these resources? This is something more experienced people will know, because they either already know who is an expert and who is not, but it rather boils down to that you need to be capable to quickly assess whether a resource is trustworthy or not. This is something the "Information Society" demands from us, and it's also an experience thing. * To do your work, you need to learn. And to master your work, you permanently need to learn. Enough said. I enjoy this discussion, it is important. -- Jens Meiert Information Architect http://meiert.com/ | Webdesign mit CSS (O'Reilly, 228 pages, German) | In theatres November 28th: http://meiert.com/cssdesign/
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