The New Professionalism
Well I'm not in the place were I can define the new professionalism but I like to deliver a message from Andy clarke.
“There are now so many web sites, blogs or publications devoted to helping people learn standards and accessible techniques that there are now no excuses not to work with semantic code or CSS. Those people still delivering nested table layout, spacer gifs or ignoring accessibility can no longer call themselves web professionals.”
Molly E. Holzschlag commented on this message in a post titled Web Standards and The New Professionalism she posted it on her blog and on The web standards project blog I'd like to deliver part of her post too.
“Whatever we call it - Web 2.0, evangelism, religion, or simply the best way to do our jobs, I can’t agree more with the strong yet very clear message that real-world Web professionals are sharing. No doubt that getting to a highly skilled level isn’t that easy. Believe me, I understand. I’ve been at it for the majority of my career and as the old adage goes, the more I learn, the less I realize I know.”
“The essence of this new professionalism isn't about being perfect at what we do. It's being able to say:
Hey, I don’t know that. Let me go find out.It isn't about knowing it all, because we surely never will. And, there will be shifts and changes. D'Andrea, for example, expresses that he's concerned how new senior management at AT&T will deal with the site from here forward.”
And she says at the end of her post
“Today, I want to express that I believe that this new professionalism means taking responsibility for the education of ourselves and each other, and ensuring that reversions like Disney Store UK never happen again”
I hope this message is heard by every web designer in the world to start learning the right way to do things and let the web be a better place.
November 15, 2005, 4:24 PM | Web standards