Sent by Curtis Clark on 3 January 2005 00:12
on 2005-01-02 15:59 Lists wrote:
> I've never found this list
> terribly accommodating to newbies who ask a simple question and get
> barraged by the "Valid code Nazis".
I've found this list to be *incredibly* accommodating to newbies, much
more so that a lot of other technical lists I'm on. There are some
curmudgeons, sure (Hi, Felix! Hi, Jukka! both of whom are helpful as
well as curmudgeonly), as there are on most lists, and some extremely
helpful and giving people (too many to shout out).
If by "valid code Nazis", you mean people who tell you to validate your
HTML, that's not an affectation. When applying CSS to invalid HTML,
there *are* no simple questions: since there are no standards as to how
browsers should render invalid markup, there's no easy predicting how it
will turn out.
Perhaps the welcome message to new list members should include "always
validate your HTML and CSS before asking a question."
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Professor, Biological Sciences +1 909 869 4062
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