- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:10:24 +0100 (BST)
- To: Lars Holst <lholst@robotics.lu.se>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org, Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>, "" <kynn@idyllmtn.com>, "" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>, "" <ot@w3.org>
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Lars Holst wrote: > Kynn wrote: > >I'm afraid I don't understand why your ignorance becomes my problem. > >It's a shame you don't know, but I would ascribe it to a deficiency in > >your experience of learning Web development. You should really have > >been taught (by instructor, by book, by tutorial, etc.) that > >a meta-refresh is a poor way to send people from one address to another. > > Kynn, don't be afraid. I never suggested it was "your problem". What I did > say was that an explanation or a link would be helpful. The rest is your own > interpretation. If I may offer you some constructive feedback, I think your > reply would have benefited from avoiding language such as "ignorance", > "shame", and "should". At least I would have appreciated it more that way. Oh, well. I must admit that Kynn's "why can't this non-autodidact idiot use google?" reaction was exactly my own. His post just beat me to it. > Should the validator service assume a certain level of knowledge on behalf > of the developer? Certainly so. Should it exclude those who don't have that > knowledge rather than trying to help them become better developers? > Certainly not. And the same should go for posts to this forum. Looking forward to you hanging around this forum and contributing such posts. L. <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
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