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I think you should teach yourself the fundamentals of HTML and CSS. It is not magic and its not even that complicated. But if you have worked in frontend develo

by olavk 12y ago

I think you should teach yourself the fundamentals of HTML and CSS. It is not magic and its not even that complicated. But if you have worked in frontend development for years, with frameworks, browsers specific workarounds and so on, you tend to miss the forest for trees. If you can program, you can definitely learn to understand layout languages. The problem is perhaps that we are aware that programming is challenging, while layout languages are considered "easy" so never really studied in depth.

afarrell 12y ago
Right, that is what I'm getting at: How does one actually teach oneself the fundamentals of HTML/CSS though? Off the top of my head, I know I've read through - http://learnlayout.com/ http://learnlayout.com/ - http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers... - http://htmldog.com/guides/html/beginner/ http://htmldog.com/guides/html/beginner/ - http://htmldog.com/guides/html/intermediate/ http://htmldog.com/guides/html/intermediate/ And long ago did the same with w3cschools. But it feels like the box model only accurately describes how browsers work about 70% of the time. How do I learn to be able to predict at least 95%? I have suspected that the right approach is actually to take 50 or so layouts sketched on paper and do them. Is that actually reasonable?