- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:57:22 +0000
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Sunday 16 December 2001 10:02, David Woolley wrote: | > Furthermore, nobody teaches accessible web design. No college | > student I know taking IT-related major with a web concentration has to | > learn accessible web design. And after college...why would the | > developers want to | | I strongly suspect that a lot of places don't even teach valid HTML, or | any of the original philosophy behind HTML. I don't know about specific | paid courses, but I was thumbing through a self teaching book on the I can make even stronger statement. "...A lot of places don't even teach Good Programming Pratice (like structural programming, data incapsulation, etc.) - as we have a lot of programmers in C, less in C++, and just a few people knowing how to program in Modula-2 or what is _Oberon_" BTW: "valid HTML" is an oxymoron, IMO. HTML4 is terrible broken and badly documented. If you rephrase your statement as "a lot of places don't even teach XML" - it becames much more correct (and self-explaining) There are places where teach HTML, or books about HTML. In most cases, they teach 9or write) about *broken HTML*, even without mentionig it. Number of people who understand XML is much lower - just because you can't write *broken XML* and still get it interpreted/rendered, even with MS IE. In addition to pure XML, you will have to study CSS as well - which is a task on its own :-) | European Computer Driving Licence, and the HTML example they had was | badly (structurally broken) - I seem to remember that that one had the | mistake that HEAD is a visible heading, not meta data, that is somewhat | prevalent. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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