Respect for Web Developers

Back when I was first paid to build web-based applications (around 1998 or so), the world of Web Development as we know it today did not exist. When I began working my first post-college full-time Maps and Ajax is all over the place. And don't forget that when he wrote: I've been doing a lot of JavaScript the past couple days, trying to expand my horizons. Holy crap, man. I'm pretty smart, but this shit is hard. Between IE, Moz/Firefox, and Safari/Konq, I've seen everything. I'm now educated in quirks mode, strict mode, the different box models, the different event registration models, the different DOMs, the different ...... This tells me three things:

1. this stuff is still hard to get right--lots of little pitfalls still
2. I certainly would have a lot to learn or relearn
3. webdev folks really don't get the respect they deserve
That last point it worth reinforcing. I think a lot of people who've been doing "web stuff" long enough think that web developers are the same as the "HTML monkeys" we use to refer to back in the day. That couldn't be farther from the truth. Jeremy Zawodny is the author of the popular Yahoo! Search blog as well. Visit Jeremy's blog:

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