I do not see how any of these questions reflect the ability to be good at the front-end. If I didn't know one of those answers in a real world scenario, I could easily just Google it. Design sense and a good concept of usability are much more important IMO.
How to Recruit a Frontend Hero
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#23I don't think so. First of all, a Frontend Hero needs to have design sense, ability to learn quickly, empathy with users, trustworthiness to "fill in the blanks", and the balls to say no to designs or features that are unnecessary, impractical, and time-consuming. What Sebastian Deutsch described is a CSS / Javascript quirks specialist. Additionally, the article never really touched on how to recruit these people - i…
Absolutely. Frontend is far more about design and usability than it is about whether or not you can remember vendor-specific hacks for CSS columns. I figure if I ever need to hire a "frontend hero" my checklist will be very short. Do you have a sizable portfolio, and does your stuff look like the stuff I want? If so, you're in the running.
Please notice a frontend coder is not a user experience designer. So having good design skills is not necessary to work as a frontend coder.
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#24... wow, I haven't been paying close attention to the web development community. CSS frameworks are really considered an essential building block now?
I literally equate css frameworks with code bloat. I'm glad to see that other people feel the same.
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#25this list is wrong.
hacks, css grids, obscure references, nonstandard way of clearing divs, instead of the much more used and standard overflow:hidden , vendor specific css declarations? printed media references?
here's a few questions that a REAL front end dev would likely answer:
do you know standards? do you do inline css/js? do you use hacks? do you use grids? if yes, this guy is a neofite and needs to learn how to unbloat his css do you reset your css? do your sites validate? do you like flash in your websites? do you code by hand? do you use autohotkey/zen coding/texter/autoit/etc for coding? do you despise expression web/dreamweaver/kompozer? do you use firebug? how do you test for xbrowser testing? do you know what "semantics" mean in a web context?
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#26... wow, I haven't been paying close attention to the web development community. CSS frameworks are really considered an essential building block now?
Actually, I would answer that question with "Compass". Blueprint, etc. are CSS templates and themes, not a "framework" as used in computer science and else where.
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#27... wow, I haven't been paying close attention to the web development community. CSS frameworks are really considered an essential building block now?
I literally equate css frameworks with code bloat. I'm glad to see that other people feel the same.
Bloated as because CSS frameworks are, essentially, based on CSS and works at mercy of the browser; true “frameworks” like Compass are pre-compiled and comes without presentational classes, therefore less bloat. On the other hand, front-end work is dirty by nature, and I’d argue that a beautiful page with bloated code is better than a not-working page with very clean code.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely. Frontend is far more about design and usability than it is about whether or not you can remember vendor-specific hacks for CSS columns. I figure if I ever need to hire a "frontend hero" my checklist will be very short. Do you have a sizable portfolio, and does your stuff look like the stuff I want? If so, you're in the running.
Please notice a frontend coder is not a user experience designer. So having good design skills is not necessary to work as a frontend coder.
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