There’s no denying it. I’m just to damn lazy to be an HTML developer. This really sunk in when I looked at a tutorial for doing a jQuery Lightbox – for a client project. The tutorial was titled “Super Simple Lightbox with CSS and jQuery†but after reading it over I thought a better title would be “A really freaking hard tutorial on the inane intricacies of doing something that looks simple but in reality is a skein of HTML, Javascript and CSS that no one except an HTML Jedi Master could every come up with “.
I must say that I have a totally refreshed respect for developers who can do that sort of work and enjoy it. I look at all that code and cringe. Not that there’s all that much code but the setup and the edge cases and the IE quarkiness . . . oy. I get shivers just thinking about it.
And just a quick question to those hardy souls who do HTML dev work: can you set break points in your code and do object introspection? Because if you can’t how in the world do you ever debug something? Because HTML code looks like it’s going to need a lot of debugging time.
To me, doing something simple should be just that, simple. For instance it’s pretty rare that I ever do anything in Flex/Actionscript that seems complex. The entire app might feel complex but it’s made up of rather simple parts that all follow logically. Take a look at the CSS in step 2 of the Lightbox example. Are you kidding me? There’s no way in hell any of that follows logically.
Who knows what the long term future is for Flash/AIR. It seems pretty solid for the next 3-4 years at least. But I’m thinking I should work on my carpentry skills as a backup career just in case. Because I’d never make it as an HTML developer.
Source : http://polygeek.com/4912_life-of-polygeek_im-too-lazy-to-be-a-html-developer
