On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Depends. Most of w3schools' HTML and CSS information that I've seen is > pretty good. It's usually one of the first places I tell learners to go. Good for you. It's still not the definitive source for the HTML and CSS recommendations, whatever improvements they've made to it. Which I see no reason to waste time evaluating when the real thing is available. >> Read and bookmark the actual W3C recommendations as references. > > That won't help a beginner. Even after 12 years of Web design and > development, I find those documents nearly unreadable. My heart goes out to you -- but maybe other people won't have that problem. Learning to read the canonical documents wouldn't seem like such an ambitious goal. :-) >> A newcomer to the web should also read the HTTP RFCs. > > Why on earth? Because there are people posting here who obviously have no idea how HTTP really works. I think that's essential for someone doing "web development". But remaining ignorant is certainly an option -- even a popular one in some quarters, apparently. -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroe...@gmail.com twitter: @hassan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
