You don't need no stinking HTML5 book, it'll be outdated already.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:37, 1 reply, 10 years ago)

Too late.
Got to start somewhere, anyway.
( Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:39, Reply)

I've only done a tiny bit of HTML stuff
Wrote some scripts that outputted flat pages of tables, etc.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:43, Reply)

Same here, I'm doing this out of curiousity, really.
Edit: and because if I have to take support calls for much longer I'm going to end up bringing a shotgun to work with me.
( Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:48, Reply)

I choose which support calls I take
i.e. no muppets
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:02, Reply)

I thought about doing ITIL when I first started doing this.
Once I realised that calling the person who asks you "what's a web browser?" a fucking useless cunt is frowned upon, I decided it probably wasn't for me.
( Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:05, Reply)

I did ITIL
Its fucking shit. HTH
( Peej, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:13, Reply)

ITIL?
Are you fucking insane?! I once had a 3 day course on it. If it had been 4, I would have been the only person leaving the room alive
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:14, Reply)

Did you do the exams?
We had several people walk out and not return it was so dull.
( Peej, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:26, Reply)

Yeah, I passed the basic one or something

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:27, Reply)

I am not.
Peoples' propensity for stupidity and then offence when their stupidity is presented to them precludes any desire on my part to learn how some corporation feels is the best way to hold their hand.

In a wider view, this is why I'm experimenting with other potential avenues of employment.
( Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:32, Reply)

I kind of like where I'm at now
A bit of support, a bit of consultancy, a bit of coding, etc.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:40, Reply)

True, does it include CSS3?
Main things about HTML5 are
- Instead of tons of Divs, you have more specific elements, like Main/Article/Header/Footer
- You can apply and use your own attributes and use them in JS/CSS, like <article data-category="cheese"> ... etc ... </article> <style> article[data-category='cheese'] { /* etc */ } </style>
- www.caniuse.com will let you know if you can actually use it safely.
- lesscss.org/ is awesome
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:45, Reply)

Yeah, it's HTML5 and CSS3.
I've not used any previous form of HTML, so I shouldn't find it too hard to forget what I didn't know in the first place!
( Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:47, Reply)

fuck off to dweebsnet

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:56, Reply)

Cool, it's easy, even I can do it, people even pay me to do it, and i'm a moron.
There are some other stuff on top of that that you'll need to learn if you want to do it as a job though, give me a shout if you want a list of stuff to learn to be a front-end dev.
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:58, Reply)

Cheers, buddy.
I'll have a bash through and see if I enjoy it and then go from there!
( Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:01, Reply)

Nice, that's the main thing, to enjoy it. If you don't, like, if you're doing this because you _have_ too, then you'll get nowhere.
Your brower's Dev Tools (Code-Inspector) will be your BFF.
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:08, Reply)