Hi there, > I've been on this list since returning from WE05 in Sydney last October, > hoping that the same feeling of sharing and openness would prevail. It does > to a certain extent, but the few glaring exceptions have tended to put me > off posting to the list.
I doubt an email list could ever quite reproduce WE05 :) > Some people write as if there were a club, a them and us, people who get it > and people who don't, and never the twain shall meet. There are plenty out there that feel it's "us and them, those meddling standards people" so occasionally people display a bit of a bunkered mentality. I think people are really taking exception to developers who *know* about standards, but are actively hostile to anyone who wants to use them. > I remember at WE05 > Molly Holzschlag asking us what we called ourselves, and there were some > very diverse answers (my favourite was "the guy who does stuff"). Elsewhere > (on Flickr) I've seen her reminding us that lots of us are good at > different aspects of what we do and together we make a good team. I'd like > to think that this web standards community is a team, not a club where only > some of us are "truly" web professionals. That's true and it was a wonderful keynote (I'm "web standards developer" ;)), but a few weeks later Molly also reminded us that web developers have to be open to learning new things - http://www.molly.com/2005/11/14/web-standards-and-the-new-professionalism/ It's a balance, I guess. We can't be too passive or nothing gets done; we can't be too aggressive or people just bunker up. cheers, h -- --- <http://weblog.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
