[Tutor] more html/css question than python

Matthew Ngaha chigga101 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 21 20:10:38 CET 2013


On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> You really need to know html and css if you are building
> modern web UIs. That's because most good modern web sites
> use a lot of client side(browser) scripting, usually using
> JQuery. JQuery requires that you really understand how
> html tags and css styles work. So you may get out of
> creating the bulk of the code but you still need to
> understand the detail of what the tool produces. More
> so today that, say, 10 years ago. Finally, I'd really
> aim for xhtml rather than html since it's easier to
> parse and not too much extra work to produce. (htmltidy
> can convert to xhtml for you if you prefer)
>
so xhtml even over html5? isn't html5 the new thing these days? I know
basic javascript, so it's definately  better to also learn jquery?
I've always pushed it to the side :(


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