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What is the point the author is making? That the knowledge of HTML is going away? That's obviously false. > And it is becoming increasingly clear to me that th
by kowdermeister 7y ago
What is the point the author is making? That the knowledge of HTML is going away? That's obviously false.
> And it is becoming increasingly clear to me that there’s a whole swathe of Frontend Engineers who don’t know or understand the frontend-est of frontend technologies.
I would need some data on this, since it sounds like this claim is backed by anecdotes. None of my co-workers struggle with this and there's lot of frontenders in our company. Semantic HTML's usage is now baked into VS Code in a tooltip.
Yes, every web developer should be at least moderately good with HTML. Can we agree on that? Good :) Learn a bit CSS and now you have superpowers.
HTML only provides the LEGO blocks for the web, but the web is much more than that. It's an interconnected network of information with rich media. What matters is the information persistence, quality and accessibility.
- rimliu 7y agoI would not consider knowing "a bit of CSS" as knowing and understanding frontend-est of frontend technologies. Alas, there are more than enough cluches available in the form of variouos frameworks so throwing enough stuff at the wall fill finally make some of it stick hence replacing the need of knowledge and understanding.
- kowdermeister 7y agoWe are talking about HTML. It's really-really easy and I don't think there is a problem at all that the author claims.
- rangerpolitic 7y agoIt's easy to use. It's not easy to use well.