Is XHTML and CSS easy?

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Joshuaink forwarded that question to all his readers in a single entry. It was simple and straight forward to determine if everyone really understood both of these standards based language.

It was really interesting reading all the comments left on his entry, Is XHTML and CSS easy?

Even at the beginning, you could sense the difference of one who has maybe mastered it or one who’s become more aware of it.

If..Else says : Yes… relatively speaking, of course.
Eltse says : To understand the basics? Yes. To be good at it and produce the results you want all the time and to be ‘the best of the best’ with it? It’s an artform. Not everyone has the skills. I don’t have the skills. But people can get by off of them.

Then in Is XHTML and CSS easy? Follow up Joshua drew his conclusion:

A lot of you also drew upon an analogy I like; that being that anyone can slap paint on a canvas but it takes a skilled hand to turn out something like the Mona Lisa.

I agree with him here and do notice the difference of someone who’s mastered the Renaissance or Chiaroscuro. Like an artist, there’s a vast difference in semantic skills or coding structure between artists.

For example, if you compare my programming with local masters like Chee Aun or even Stanch, there’s a difference between all of us.

So, do you think XHTML and CSS is easy?

8 thoughts on “Is XHTML and CSS easy?”

  1. Stanch and CheeAun are pretty good, and so are you.
    Chee Aun has a killer color sense (but lacks sense in usability). And stanch has layout sense.

    And I’ve seen enough of your works to be convinced that you’re bloody good too.

  2. Thank you so much for believing in me, Chewxy. :)

    As for color sense, it just takes practice and probably alot of referencing. ;)

  3. Whoah, mighty flattered. I’m no master! Haha but thanks. IMO xhtml becomes easy after a while, but CSS, combined with all the browser bugs, is a lot tougher!

  4. I agree with Chewxy. You’re pretty damn good, too ^_^ Where’d your old layout with the people silhouette header thing go to, BTW? I miss that.

    XHTML and CSS is easy to learn, but to master it requires a whole different train of thought. And even more so when trying to go for cross-compatibility between browsers.

  5. yea.. xhtml and css is pretty easy for most people to create ordinary pages. but when it comes to really mastering css to control the presentation of your xhtml pages, that’s a different story altogether. My site for example… i’ve really given up hope on IE…

  6. I heard IE 7 will be more standardized. Supports CSS3 too (yay! Shadows come with CSS!)

    So, once IE 7 comes out, Micro$oft would force everyone to update, and it’ll be tons tons tons easier

  7. Well, the beta has yet to support :before and :after pseudo elements, and let’s not talk about the numerous bugs while rendering CSS2… not even Firefox or Opera are CSS3 compliant yet..

  8. Well, MS even had the nerve advising everyone to disable their CSS hacks. I think might as well just say that we don’t have to putt any in starting now and if it looks funny on IE, blame MS.

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