Would you consider working with HTML, development?

[Hyperblaze]

Curious show of hands, how many of you would consider HTML actually development?

I'm working on a page right now that was originally created by MS Word.

All I can say is if you value the sanity of web developers in the future, please avoid MS Word at all costs when creating a web page.

MS Word does not know how to create a properly structured html page.

I used to think writing HTML tags was fairly basic.

Until I saw how some other folks wrote some.

 

[Crusty]

Of course not, somebody who can only write HTML is only good as a designer. HTML is a markup syntax, not a programming language!

 

[DaveSimmons]

You can be a JavaScript developer (especially for AJAX), but like Crusty says HTML is a markup language.

FYI, Word 2003 - 2007 have a Save As "filtered HTML" choice that's much less demented and sad than their old HTML export.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You can be a JavaScript developer (especially for AJAX), but like Crusty says HTML is a markup language.

FYI, Word 2003 - 2007 have a Save As "filtered HTML" choice that's much less demented and sad than their old HTML export.

Good to know. Sadly, I'm on the recieving end of this and I am not even sure the client has Word 2003.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You can be a JavaScript developer (especially for AJAX), but like Crusty says HTML is a markup language.

FYI, Word 2003 - 2007 have a Save As "filtered HTML" choice that's much less demented and sad than their old HTML export.

Good to know. Sadly, I'm on the recieving end of this and I am not even sure the client has Word 2003.

The easiest thing to do would be to open the file try to see what it looks it and recreate it, at least that's what I do when I get bastardized HTML crap from people.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Crusty

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You can be a JavaScript developer (especially for AJAX), but like Crusty says HTML is a markup language.

FYI, Word 2003 - 2007 have a Save As "filtered HTML" choice that's much less demented and sad than their old HTML export.

Good to know. Sadly, I'm on the recieving end of this and I am not even sure the client has Word 2003.

The easiest thing to do would be to open the file try to see what it looks it and recreate it, at least that's what I do when I get bastardized HTML crap from people.

Sadly, I don't have enough time for that.

 

[troytime]

as far as word, search and replace is your friend 🙂

as for "developer" - html is a gray area i think

there's a big difference between knowing some html (which many people do) and being an html guru
neither are true "developers" or "programmers", but in the original use of the term "web developer", they're both "developers"

anyways, gone are the days where a web guy only knows html

nowadays html and css is the union between designers and programmers.
the designer should be the css guru with html knowledge and the programmer should be the programming guru with html knowledge as well

 

[Whitedog]

Just about ALL Developers "use" HTML... and just about "ALL" developers inbed it with javascript, ASP... asp.net.... etc.

There's no such thing as someone who "just writes html". If there is, I've never met them.

HTML is to a programmer as Flour is to a cook. Pretty much useless my itself, but you NEED it to make your final product with. (Providing you're cooking something that requires flour/html).

Nuff said.

 

[degibson]

HTML != development. Two reasons:

1) There are too many easy and accessible ways to write HTML (Word, for instance).
2) HTML isn't turing complete. As others have noted, it is only markup.

Not to say that 'extensive HTML experience' doesn't suggest 'programmer geek type' to laymen.