Posted by Luigi Donatello Asero on 11/25/05 03:08

"dorayme" <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> skrev i meddelandet
news:BFACAAC6.1A867%dorayme@optusnet.com.au...
> > From: Travis Newbury <travisenwbury@hotmail.com>
> >
> > browser with yor particular settings):
> >
> > http://www.georgiaaquarium.org
> >
> > Or I should say, they hired this company to do it for them:
> >
> > http://www.spunlogic.com/
> >
> > Now go look at their list of client's. (Some of them are on the
> > front page, but there are more)
> >
> > So, here in alt.html we read/preach/rant about validation, and
> > using CSS, don't require javascript, flash blows, you know the
> > drill. But in the real world we seem to find the exact oposite. At
> > least the real world as known to Americans (which is obviously the
> > target for all these companies).


> > I am not bringing this contrast up to argue which is better as
> > there are more than enough threads in this group that talk about
> > that. (Hell I have myself participate in one or two threads like
> > that...) But rather to point out how there is a HUGE job market
> > for many of the skills frowned upon in this group. As a matter of
> > fact in Atlanta, the job market for IT positions is at pre-internet
> > bubble burst levels. So what is causing this boom in the "evil
> > technology"?
> >
> > Could the growing number of developers aware of validation etc, be
> > shrinking the number of developers heading in the "non validating"
> > direction, thus causing a need for these type of developers in the
> > companies where the web page is still run by marketing?
> >
> > Or could it be that more people want the web to be more interactive
> > and sites like these are making tons of money, and that is why
> > there is a boom for these types of developers?
> >
> > I find this contrast interesting.
> >
> > Civil comments?
> >
>
> Perhaps this is going on: the folk who are good at making money
> have not had time to study and read and practice better
> standards of website construction. Nothing in best practice
> stops use of the interaction or flair you refer to. But it
> requires time and patience to do both jazzy frontend and solid
> backend stuff. The folk going for the (perhaps more superficial)
> popular styles etc can get it without quite so much effort using
> crappy source and/or wsiwigs.
>
> Division of labour thing going on: they are hell bent on the
> output and anything will do to make it how they want it (and
> that means mainly in IE). If it mostly works, why spend time on
> validation issues (they think... or "don't think"!) They get
> good at providing reasonably quickly what people find
> immediately attractive - this makes for a marketable skill more
> quickly acquired....
>
> --
> dorayme
>
> (as usual, speaking from BdeZ killfile)



Interesting thread.
No sign of water on Mars, yet?

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Luigi Donatello Asero
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