Interesting, although i didnt read a word of it, its all in dutch, but i got
the english summary.

As for certification, its useless as one pointed out, technologys on the
internet change all the time. Im at uni at the moment doing web development,
and in the HTML side of things, they still teach old school methods. Lukily
for me i know alot on the web standards side of things.

Fair play to them though, thumbs up, wish them well.

On 7/3/07, Lucien Stals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I just started doing a Cert IV in Assessment and Training so that I'd be a
qualified trainer (not necessarily for the web), and I was surprised to find
out that the training packages for  qualifications are normally only
reviewed every 5 years. In many industries that would be okay. But on the
web?

I was also surprised to find some training packages for IT related
certificates (here in Australia ) which included a unit on writing a web
documents which claimed DHTML was a valid markup language.

The unit "(ICAB4135A) Create a simple mark up language document to
specification" says...
"Mark-up language  May include but are not limited to HTML, DHTML, XHTML,
SGML, VRML, XML. "

That unit is part of a Cert IV in IT (Websites).

Lucien.



Lucien Stals
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2007 at  3:53 PM, "Matthew Pennell" <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 03/07/07, Sander Aarts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>  Yesterday, PPK announced that he and others are busy setting up a
Dutch
>> guild of Front- end Developers:
>> http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2007/07/gilde_van_front.html(only
>> in Dutch for now).
>>
>> The general idea is to professionalize front- end development,
emphesize
>> the fact that it is in fact a branche of its own and to set up a
>> certification system by which customers can easily distinguish between
>> modern developers, using web standards, and old skool table hackers.
>>
>
> Interesting. Whenever the subject has arisen before, it's usually been
felt
> that because the pace of change is so rapid in web development,
> certification is practically useless -  you might have qualified for a
> certificate a year ago, but that's no guarantee that you're still using
the
> most up- to- date techniques.

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