Herding Code 69: Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists

Episode 69

This week on Herding Code, Scott Bellware returns to talk about . 

• Scott talks about the frustrations in working with "HTML Specialists"
• Scott discusses the team issues caused by specialists in a software team who aren't in touch with the entire product development cycle
• The problem with handoffs: loss of workability
• Eventually, things turn to the technology issue involved in working with HTML and CSS
• Are HTML tables necessarily evil
• Scott and Scott K discuss whether CSS purity is a premature optimization
• Jon and Scott discuss whether clean markup can be deferred until the end of a project
• Scott talks about the lunacy of delivering design work as "final"
• Scott talks about how optimization fights with workability
• Scott enumerates some of examples of websites which might not benefit from accessibility
• Jon posits that tables might not be easier than CSS design, it's just what we learned first
• Scott K talks about how CSS floats drive him nuts
• Scott talks about how crazy CSS is when viewed as a programming language
• K Scott talks about some technological workarounds like lesscss
• Scott talks about how he doesn't see Silverlight as an improvement, because it brings along a lot of other challenges
• Scott talks about how working in teams and in "small batches" solves the problems with handoffs
• Scott talks about the joy of a January 1st project date

Show Links:

• Scott Bellware's Blog
• Scott's consulting company, ampersand GT

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Herding Code 69 - Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists