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Posted by nice.guy.nige on 09/08/07 00:02
While the city slept, Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi) feverishly
typed...
> The real question is why this would matter to anyone. Surely if
> someone is wondering whether to use <font> or <h1>, he needs a crash
> course on web design and should not write any HTML (more) before he
> has got a clue. If he needed to ask, there are lots of fundamental
> questions he should ask but probably doesn't unless we point out that
> he is now completely lost.
The sad situation is that many places -- educational establishments
(colleges, universities etc) included -- teach the bad HTML that was
prevalant in the late 90's. I worked at a local university a few years ago,
in the admin department for a network of training outlets that they ran. I
saw the course notes for the web design part of one of the courses they ran.
It actually suggested using a higher font size for text that was a heading,
instead of suggesting using the appropriate heading element. This was (I
think) 2003...
A few weeks ago I was interviewing people for a web dev role in the company
I worked for then (I've moved since then). One of the guys I interviewed
showed me some stuff he had done for his course which was good old fashioned
presentational HTML. I asked him if he had been taught this at uinversity
and he said "yes". The rest of his interview was spent re-teaching him...
:-s
Cheers,
Nige
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