9 May
2010
9 May
'10
10:37 a.m.
On May 9, 2010, at 1:17 PM, John Foust wrote:
Yes, that term is accurate. It is not programming.
This has been
going on for a while, and it's maddening. "HTML
programming" is a term I hear with some frequency. Cluelessness
abounds.
You have a better term for the hodgepodge of tools and languages
used in contemporary webs? Maybe "web developer"? Who gets hired for knowing only HTML and not any
ancillary language
to go along with it?
Actually, very few people get hired for even knowing HTML, because
most web developers don't know HTML. The vast majority of HTML on
the WWW today, easily 95% is program-generated. I'm not talking
about dynamic sites, I'm talking about authoring tools like
Dreamweaver. Writing HTML in an editor is considered "old school"
and today's web developers call it, incorrectly, "programming".
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL