Comments on: Why are we Working in the Web Industry?

By: Steven Hambleton

Steven Hambleton — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:12:47 +0000

I’m in the industry because HTML/CSS is the first ‘language’ that I understand and enjoy using.

It creates resources that are accessible to millions, can be commented on, shared, used to teach others or merely provide a simple service.

It’s an infant industry that is constantly changing and can be changed by individuals.

By: Gary Barber

Gary Barber — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:56:21 +0000

@seb so why not be an accountant. thats constant repetition.

By: seb

seb — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:15:30 +0000

Because it pays ! Creation ? I don’t think so, it’s always the same stuff, different colors, different design… I am a programmer, maybe you guys are designers. But in my point of view, web industry is constant repetition -programaticly.

By: Myles Eftos

Myles Eftos — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:29:24 +0000

Why am I here? Because I believe the web is the best application delivery tool ever.

That and the fact that there is always stuff to learn – and I mean real geeky stuff that gets my a little over-excited.

If we ignore all that new media bull shit – the web is still and awesome place to be in.

By: Gary Barber

Gary Barber — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:20:44 +0000

@anon First of you are not comparing like with like. There are NO web standards in reality as the standards we refer to are really just recommendations. They are not enforced by a standards body. They are not part of the ISO series.

Do we need them for web design, and to be innovative, no not at all. They maybe even holding people back.

Just think about, it would we be better off without standards.

Browser speed has nothing to do with web standards. It’s the core of the rendering engine used.

@For Future Commenter’s – If the comment is trollish I will delete.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:26:33 +0000

(edit – removed trollish comment)
Standards exist to ensure a common interface to a type: we have a standard unit of measurement (metric in non-U.S. countries and in the U.S. in fields of science and engineering), a standard of Internet communication (TCP/IP), a small set of standards for character codes in representing the character values you are reading at this very moment (7 bit ANSI, Unicode (esp. UTF-8 and UTF-16), and so on.

Standards define an common interface by which 2 objects may communicate. In this comment, the English language is the standard by which you and I are communicating. Imagine if one of us wrote Swahili and the other wrote German: how then would we communicate?

Hence the need for standards… Web standards ensure that browser authors can write a reasonably-fast browser, rather than having to check an infinite combination of exceptions to their assumptions about web coding.

By: raveman

raveman — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:02:32 +0000

Im tool guy, i love creating new tools, anything that can make computer life simpler and do some cool stuff with computer.
I work in web because of the money, cool coding I do after work, on the end of the day everybody wants to earn as much as possible and programmer has to become web-programmer. Internet Explorer is one reason why its not great. AJAX is making web-programming more interesting and cool JS frameworks too.

By: harriet

harriet — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:35:08 +0000

I’m here to create – but I need the standards to introduce some of the powerful creativity of the web into other areas – i.e. education. Personally I work in the web, not on it – as I am not a coder, but a channel through which colleagues, partnerships and friends become part of the wonderful revolutionary web.

without the standards however, I cannot recommend for example purchase of mobile devices, or suggest that web technology can be rolled out quickly and transform corporate life.

Personally I am frightened by web standards as they compress creativity, however, aren’t type fonts, grammar, paragraphs etc a ‘standard’ of a kind. without them, we couldn’t access the creativity of literature. I for one never read Finnegans Wake – it was too hard. Professionally I require them in order to make widescale social changes with this wonderful tool…

By: Kay Smoljak

Kay Smoljak — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:21:59 +0000

I love the web – I think it’s truly a revolutionary medium that has changed the world (and still is doing that). I can’t think of anything better than being part of it. The best is yet to come.