Re: FN-FORUM junior forum suggestion

date posted 29th September 2002 15:59

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From: "Paul J White" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM junior forum suggestion


> > I feel qualified to see the difference. I have always been serious about
> > design banalysis,
> >
> banalysis - what an excellent word to describe some of the site checks we
> get asked to do ;-)
>

oops! slip of the finger :)

> > In addition, someone who is seriously prefessional in this field will
> spend
> > most of their life studying changes and advances in the industry.
> >
> Hence why I keep an eye on the Evolt and css-discuss lists. They're not
> really for beginners, but having a direct line to the likes of Eric Meyer
> and other people who actually help set the standards we code to, is a
> brilliant way of keeping up with advances relevant to my corner of the
> industry.
>

Its a pity, but too few people do this. I remember having an argunemnt with
a 'web designer' (ex hairdresser) who acused me of writing something that
'was not standard html' because it broke his wonderful design ideas. When I
quoted the section of the W3 standard that showed mine was standard and his
stuff wasn't he went blank. He had no formal idea of what a standard was,
and took the crap he was used to writing as being normal, therefore
'standard'. Its this lack of professionalism that really ticks me off,
especially when I then have to go quite vocal to not be damaged
professionally; this is not my way and I seriously resent it.

BTW when I showed him HTML-Tidy, he rejected it because it was 'too rigid'
and kept on bringing up errors....