kartooner

In response to the arti­cle ‘This Pisses Me Off’ on phark.typepad.com I wrote the following:

After read­ing Zeldman’s Design­ing with Web Stan­dards, Eric Meyer on CSS and a slew of other books I’ve been pick­ing up on CSS and imple­ment­ing it accord­ingly. To be hon­est, how­ever, I learn some­thing new every­day and for some­one to even con­sider CSS to be chal­leng­ing.… well, I’d explain to them that any­thing is chal­leng­ing — at first.

Any­one can read a book on Rocket Sci­ence and if they devoted enough energy and atten­tion to the sub­ject they could eas­ily learn to become a rocket sci­en­tist. The unat­tain­able is for those peo­ple that don’t feel the need to learn about the sub­ject or don’t have any interest.

I chose to learn CSS (albeit grad­u­ally) to break my HTML “spaghetti code” habits. I real­ize how bloated and non-semantic the code was and had an awak­en­ing if you may. Never would I quote on my site that I’m an expert because I feel that noone is an expert in their field no mat­ter how many cer­tifi­cates you have hang­ing on your wall.

To me, we are con­stantly learn­ing and hon­ing our craft. Be it a hobby that we picked up over the week­end (bikini belly danc­ing or what­ever) or tak­ing the time to learn CSS, we’ll never become an expert. Any­one that claims to be should take a step back and real­ize that learn­ing is part of life and it’s some­thing that will never cease.

I’ve been in debate about this for the past cou­ple of years. Show­ing peo­ple that any­one can learn what­ever they please but please remem­ber that even teach­ers and idols are human beings and peo­ple that are learn­ing as well.

The guy who wrote that arti­cle doesn’t have a clear idea of what he is writ­ing about. It’s like these reviews of video games or movies wherein the reviewer (or critic) spends about 3 min­utes with their sub­ject and then spend 2 hours writ­ing an arti­cle explain­ing their dis­plea­sure for said subject.

It’s easy. Spend time, hone your craft, con­tinue learn­ing and enjoy life. Our skills are never per­fect and nei­ther are we.