Ken's Tech Tips

June 2nd, 2006

Levels of HTML Knowledge:

1. Basic Knowledge of Tags
2. Can find their way around HTML
3. Can code using HTML and have coded using HTML but prefer WYSIWYG
4. Start using doctypes intentionally, using divs instead of tables. A common mistake is using a div for each cell and trying to produce tables from divs.
5. Strict doctypes, endless discussions about tiny irrelevent details of HTML.
6. Writing specifications. WHATWG members.

I’d say I’m somewhere in the region of level 4 or level 5. I used to be a lot more standards-obsessive but I’m a lot more willing to use proprietary non-standard HTML/CSS/JS these days. 

Levels of Javascript Knowledge: 

1. alert() and other banal little stuff like changing the status bar text you find on Dynamic Drive.
2. The ability to use functions.
3. Attaching events to HTML elements.
4. Dynamically adding events to HTML elements.
5. addEventListener, etc.
6. Bindings!?!

I’d say I’m around level 5 on Javascript. Again, I used to be in to standards a lot more – using document.createElement() and the DOM when it blatently took a lot more work and a lot more code to do what could be done in one line using innerHTML. 

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