I’m too lazy to be a HTML developer

This is so true - for the past 5 years I've been working on web apps, but this year most of my time was spent working on a java server / client with the client being a web start applet.

It has been so pleasurable to not have to worry about HTML / JS - if I want a dialog box, I can have one very simply with no messing about.

Re: I’m too lazy to be a HTML developer

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Post by magicalhobo » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 6:28 AM UTC

vessenes wrote: post #2

From the article: "Flex/Air seem pretty solid [work venues] for the next three or four years at least." Not a good plan; then again, not a good general attitude from a technologist.

Why is using a solid platform not a good plan?

Re: I’m too lazy to be a HTML developer

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Post by ebiester » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 6:31 AM UTC

andre3k1 wrote: post #3

off topic: Which is correct grammar -- "an HTML" or "a HTML" ? This question has always bugged me.

"an" -- the sound of the H is the key. It sounds like ay-ch.

Re: I’m too lazy to be a HTML developer

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Post by baddox » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 6:32 AM UTC

I may be wrong, but I'm assuming that the author is using "HTML code" to mean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

As for HTML and CSS, I agree that they're difficult to debug and that it takes a lot of experimentation to become comfortable with. Developer tools like Firebug and those included with Chrome can take a bit of the mystery out of HTML and CSS.

Since breakpoints don't exactly make sense to apply to markup and style sheet languages, I'll assume the author was complaining about the lack of breakpoints in JavaScript. In fact, you can use breakpoints in Firebug.

When the author talks about the apparent complexity of various languages and platforms, he should know that this is entirely subjective. I've been goofing around with HTML/CSS/JS since I was very young, so by this point most lightbox tutorials and similar articles look fairly simple to me. Step 2 in the tutorial he mentions looks quite simple to me. The only things that I suspect would be confusing to a newcomer would be the weird vendor prefixes.

Re: I’m too lazy to be a HTML developer

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Post by kevinalexbrown » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 6:33 AM UTC

Were you just reading the tutorial in one go, or were you working through it at the same time?

When I was ten I thought HTML was too complicated because I tried to read a tutorial in one go, then make a website. Turns out you can't do that.

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Post by drivebyacct2 » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 6:36 AM UTC

Flash and Flex seem safe for 4 years? Are we putting money on this, eh?

Re: I’m too lazy to be a HTML developer

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Post by ebiester » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 6:37 AM UTC

I felt too lazy to be a Flex programmer. After years in HTML-land, MXML programming felt like an absolute kludge and Adobe's flex tools were slower than molasses. I was miserable enough doing it that I rejected multiple flex jobs that came my way.