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It’s good advice (like most of the list!) but I’m not sure expecting a beginner[1] to “code to the standard” is realistic. The standard (i.e the spec) isn’t beg
by tobr 6y ago
It’s good advice (like most of the list!) but I’m not sure expecting a beginner[1] to “code to the standard” is realistic. The standard (i.e the spec) isn’t beginner-friendly. You learn by trying things out and seeing what happens.
1: Assuming they meant for the advice to apply to beginners rather than young developers - what age they are seems irrelevant.
- at_a_remove 6y agoI don't know about that. Okay, this was long ago, but we had to roll out a new top-level website. I decided to be a complete hardass about it. Everything would validate, both for HTML and CSS. I would follow ADA standards as well as I could understand them. I dutifully tried things out in lynx. I even made some print style sheets (a new concept at the time). However, I had almost nothing to test on. I got a lot of flak for being slow, we should hurry this up, and so on. And yet the emails would come in later from the higher ups, "Wow, this works on my Blackberry!" I had no access to such a device, but plodding adherence to various guidelines, as dull as they were, saved my bacon there. Even the disability folks I could find seemed pleased. It isn't "move fast and break things" but you can reap a few benefits out of it.