Hassan Schroeder wrote in post #964318: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:59 AM, gezope <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not an expert, don't believe me ;) But I agree with others: W3 >> basics are useful, because you won't understand the picture in Rails. >> >> So first HTML+CSS+JavaScript, hopefully from The Source: >> http://www.w3schools.com/ > > Hopefully not. The real "Source" is http://w3.org, at least for HTML and > CSS. It's been years since I looked at w3schools
Then don't write about it, since you clearly don't know what you're talking about here. > but it used to be an > utter mess of missing and erroneous information. Depends. Most of w3schools' HTML and CSS information that I've seen is pretty good. It's usually one of the first places I tell learners to go. > Read and bookmark > the actual W3C recommendations as references. That won't help a beginner. Even after 12 years of Web design and development, I find those documents nearly unreadable. > > A newcomer to the web should also read the HTTP RFCs. Why on earth? That's like saying that to use your computer, you should first study basic electronics. > > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] > twitter: @hassan Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
