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A little secret opinion of mine is that I think the global usage of rem instead of px is a fad. The only real argument I've heard is that the mobile devices have their own definition of it, and will thus optimize in their own way, but then again I see that benefit as being nearly non-existant and definitely not demonstrated.
Yikes. I've been earning 6 figures as of about two years ago doing mostly HTML and CSS UI design for a bank. And I still did not know about many of these! I guess they are things I wish I'd known about CSS! Better late than never I guess.
Six figures? In the US? Sometimes I wonder why companies even pay developers so much in the US. I'm a specialised medical embedded software developer in the UK and I'm not even halfway to six figures, and will likely never hit it. It astounds me that companies don't hire twice as many non-US developers for the same price and get more work for their money. Note, I'm not talking about outsourcing to the absolute cheape…
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The US salaries in IT are huge, but you need to take into account that they have to pay a lot to have a quality of life comparable to what a minimum wage worker is getting in west Europe. If you have a few kids, I would bet you are not that bad in UK with one fewer digit.
Yes, This is the main difference. In Germany the education is free and medical insurance not something to worry about ( I have no idea about what deductables, deletables etc mean). This is where the difference lies.
I've been doing web development since around 2005 and to me, CSS and HTML has become far easier to use (although that could also be from experience). I took a web development course in college and found it interesting, later joining a small marketing company as an intern. My internship was unique, the company would travel to local businesses and sell them on advertising. They'd record a small ~2 minute commercial showcasing their business and then I'd build an application that compiled all of this data into a "local tourism" application. The real kicker - we didn't host the content, we burned it onto CDs and distributed the discs (think AOL). The company didn't profit well, but it was small and able to survive on what income it did make. I'm actually surprised to see it still around today - however, it seems they've moved on to actual hosted web development and graphic design work now. During this time we mostly used a combination of Tables and Photoshop "slices" to do layout (yuck!).
Today I use CSS/HTML/JavaScript daily building internal applications (and a few external). There is certainly more things to worry about such as building applications that are responsive now that mobile devices are so prevalent, however my arsenal has improved dramatically over the years with the addition of Flex and Grid (and many others). I actually enjoy the challenge of creating something beautiful and functional.
It feels like HTML and CSS could be useful for print layout, but I’ve rarely seen a high quality PDF renderer. I know Atom’s markdown preview uses headless chrome under the hood. These are hugely heavyweight tools but the output is very high quality. Are there any other recommended tools for going an HTML route, for typesetting? I’d much rather design pages that way than use InDesign, PDF scripting, or TeX.
What exactly do you mean by this? That HTML-to-PDF converters mess up the layout, or similar?
You might be aware of this, but it's still worth pointing out that you can specify a different stylesheet for the print version of an HTML page than the default one. I've used this in the past for websites where the customer wanted to use a product description page directly for generating PDFs, without having to do the work twice. We also used some Java-based HTML-to-PDF renderer, which was not perfect but had full support of CSS 2.1 and some support of CSS 3 (and this was several years ago). I think the library was Flying Saucer (based on itext).
I wish the author had gone a bit further into em vs rem. I'm reading other articles on the topic but they're simply technical explanations and I'm still not clear on what features of the page are best designed using em or rem.
From an overall perspective, em: unit based on the font size of the element it is querying. rem: unit based on the font size of the body element. rem is helpful if you want to make an entire page scale uniformly if you change the base font size (imagine accessibility settings) while keeping the same proportions with padding to font size. em is great for things like buttons where you may want to make one class for `bu…
A little secret opinion of mine is that I think the global usage of rem instead of px is a fad. The only real argument I've heard is that the mobile devices have their own definition of it, and will thus optimize in their own way, but then again I see that benefit as being nearly non-existant and definitely not demonstrated.
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Six figures? In the US? Sometimes I wonder why companies even pay developers so much in the US. I'm a specialised medical embedded software developer in the UK and I'm not even halfway to six figures, and will likely never hit it. It astounds me that companies don't hire twice as many non-US developers for the same price and get more work for their money. Note, I'm not talking about outsourcing to the absolute cheape…
Serious questions. Which countries would you suggest for this? Just the UK?
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Sounds to me like tech workers in the US should join a union, and quick!
Now, admittedly I'm a skeptic of unions by default (in my view they're mostly just another layer of bureaucracy/waste), but isn't unionization of tech workers in the US the quickest way to make themselves even less desirable? Why hire a US union member when you can hire an Eastern European who both works for peanuts and doesn't have union hang-ups? (Admittedly outsourcing has its own problems, especially when there a…
So yes, lots of American companies already outsource to East Europe. There are lots of "Silicon Valley"s across EE thriving on Western outsourcing from companies who aren't quite desperate or cheap enough to go to India.