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Posted by andreas.usenet on 11/27/80 11:57
> I'd recommend this to raw beginners - and I'm _fussy_!
Thanks. And thanks for some very useful comments.
> There are a couple of things I'm not too sure about.
> - Like CIW, it teaches XHTML as if it's the only version of HTML to
> consider. This is wrong (as a statement) and so it's a risky thing to
> teach. One risk is that coders start using <br /> in HTML 4.01 pages.
> I'd like to see a clarification of this, maybe on that last page.
I hoped we made that clear in lesson 2 and 14:
"In this tutorial you will learn so-called XHTML (Extensible HyperText
Mark-up Language) which, in short, is a new and more well-structured
way of writing HTML."
"what you have learned in this tutorial is a new and stricter and
cleaner version of HTML called XHTML."
But we might need to go into more details. I just don't want to make it
all too complicated to start with. It should be fun and easy. Maybe we
could go into details in an advanced HTML tutorial (as you suggest)
> - Lots of HTML fragments and it's not very clear that HTML always uses
> pages, with a proper heading. #5 is good, but it's not obvious that it
> always applies. Similarly for the use of inlined CSS - you ought to
> teach in this way, as it allows some styled HTML to be taught first
> without needing to go into stylesheets, but it ought to be clearer that
> this is just a teaching step, not a good practice. Students pick up
> their first habits as their stickiest habits!
I see you point. I'll try to work on that.
> - It's too short. I'd like to see this style used for a longer and
> more detailed tutorial. Maybe call it "more HTML" and have another 10
> lessons. There's certainly scope for it.
Great idea. If the site becomes an succes we will definitely consider
an advanced HTML tutorial.
> I like this tutorial so much that I'm going to point my gf (total HTML
> beginner) at it.
We are looking forward to see her at HTML.net. Thanks :-)
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