Posted by Neredbojias on 04/18/06 09:33

To further the education of mankind, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> vouchsafed:

> In article <Xns97A8B0A61B3FFhttpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251>,
> Neredbojias <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html>
> wrote:
>
>> > ie. That he is justified even though he has no perspective on the
>> > order of mag of the difficulty of success?
>>
>> Actually, yes. Let's say the difficulty is extreme, like
>> constructing a 300-story hi-rise. Would you exonerate the builders
>> if the structure collapsed just because they had faced exceptional
>> problems and not-quite handled them?
>
> er... well... er ... Roger:

Hehehe.

> You obviously can't resist an analogy that suits you. Lives are
> at stake there, no building is better than a dangerous one. Are
> the wsiwigs available worse than none at all? And it is no use a
> hand coding website developer answering this, no more than it
> would be any use for a property developer to ask the twin
> question in your case.

Admittedly I have a prejudice toward such editors, but maybe the best
answer is the following compromise. Let's say they're okay to learn on but
not as a day-in, day-out front end crutch for creating pages "on the fly"
so to speak. You may be correct in your intimation of the difficulty
involved which implies that such software will never be "able to get it
right" and should not be considered a replacement for actually knowing what
you are doing in general. Everybody is or was a gnubee at one time; I
began learning markup by playing around with the html email source in OE,
and it was a lot of fun. But I kept trying to learn from there; I didn't
just go out and buy Dreamweaver and figure I had the world by the
spheroids.

Although calculators abound, students still have to learn math. And calcs
aren't nearly as error-prone as markup generators.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity can have limits.

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