- From: Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:37:51 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Daniel Glazman wrote: > > Maurice wrote: > >> I think... >> I hand code >> You probably hand code >> The people we hire are required to hand code >> The people who hire us require that we hand code >> 99.9% of the people in this group hand code 90% of the time at least >> (wild >> guess) >> >> So in total that's what...0.07% of the planet >> The rest of the world does not and will not want to hand code. >> People will hand code things for those people to be able to use >> without hand coding. Those who want to get into the hand coding >> business will be willing to learn. The work we are doing now will >> make it easier for those people to do complex things in the future. >> People not willing to 'learn' but still want to play around with >> html will likely continue to use a mix of hand coding and wysiwyg >> and will continue to create 1996 era sites. The rest of the world >> will be updating forms on myspace2.0 >> >> There will always be hand coders. There will always be non coders. >> The non coders will always outnumber us. The non coders will always >> be dependant on us to build something they can use to create stuff >> on their own without coding. That's what I think. > > Amen to that. > I entirely agree with that if you except myspace 2.0 ;-) Note that right now, a large potion of all myspace users are filling in forms which involve playing around with hand coding HTML+CSS... for the most part they don't know what "valid HTML" is, but they have at least a basic idea of what tags do what. I'm not sure this is a direct reply to anyone's point -- but I think it's worth mentioning. Andrew Sidwell
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