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I'm not sure this is "How well do you know HTML" so much as "how well do you know browser quirks and edge cases involving CSS, DOM, and HTML." I did horribly.

I'm not sure this is "How well do you know HTML" so much as "how well do you know browser quirks and edge cases involving CSS, DOM, and HTML." I did horribly. I actually did better just guessing at random in some sections. On the other hand, I can't ever think of a time in 19 years of coding HTML where I ever structured anything like the code examples in the quiz.

Xavi 13y ago
Neither did I, though I still enjoyed it. Really opened my eyes to aspects of web development I never considered.
jaffathecake 13y ago
If it makes you feel better, I discovered loads I didn't know just writing the questions.
- scelerat 13y ago
  No, that's great too! I found the quiz informative. The title on HN was a little misleading, that's all.
jwilliams 13y ago
I agree, but I think these exercises are still useful. Reminds me of an interview I had well over a decade ago. It was a pretty high-flying investment bank, that was over 80% PhDs. They were a C++ shop and asked me a particularly gnarly C++ question in the interview. I didn't know the answer. In fact, I had no idea. I was pretty green & it was a pretty scary high-performing environment. So I answered how & why I'd avoid it entirely. Plus what I'd do if I actually encountered it in the wild. The interviewer told me at the end - "Plenty of other interviewees have answered that question, but you're the only one who got it right." That's just an anecdote really, but it's been borne out in my experience too. Knowing what you don't know is sometimes very useful...
- booruguru 13y ago
  > The interviewer told me at the end - "Plenty of other interviewees have answered that question, but you're the only one who got it right." Thanks for sharing that story. It was very instructive.
bhdz 13y ago
Well it's kind of a joke at the expense of the people who push these things into existence on the web. I managed OK till the js part, and got bored (I suck at js anyway)

Xavi 13y ago

Neither did I, though I still enjoyed it. Really opened my eyes to aspects of web development I never considered.

jaffathecake 13y ago

If it makes you feel better, I discovered loads I didn't know just writing the questions.

scelerat 13y ago
No, that's great too! I found the quiz informative. The title on HN was a little misleading, that's all.

jwilliams 13y ago

I agree, but I think these exercises are still useful. Reminds me of an interview I had well over a decade ago. It was a pretty high-flying investment bank, that was over 80% PhDs. They were a C++ shop and asked me a particularly gnarly C++ question in the interview. I didn't know the answer. In fact, I had no idea. I was pretty green & it was a pretty scary high-performing environment. So I answered how & why I'd avoid it entirely. Plus what I'd do if I actually encountered it in the wild. The interviewer told me at the end - "Plenty of other interviewees have answered that question, but you're the only one who got it right." That's just an anecdote really, but it's been borne out in my experience too. Knowing what you don't know is sometimes very useful...

booruguru 13y ago
> The interviewer told me at the end - "Plenty of other interviewees have answered that question, but you're the only one who got it right." Thanks for sharing that story. It was very instructive.

bhdz 13y ago

Well it's kind of a joke at the expense of the people who push these things into existence on the web. I managed OK till the js part, and got bored (I suck at js anyway)