I'm inclined to agree. I read the whole post, and found myself sort of agreeing with it, since I have been bitten by random browser specific (and not just IE!) quirks, and I can sort of understand having difficulty getting to know JavaScript if you're not used to it. Then I got to this line:
> Take a look at the CSS in step 2 of the Lightbox example. Are you kidding me? There’s no way in hell any of that follows logically.
And the other shoe dropped. I took a look at the example step referenced, and it was all very straightforward to me. I realize that this was because I'm already familiar with CSS, but I can't imagine it would take a motivated learner more than a couple minutes to learn what was going on in the code listed.
Programming in general is about always learning new things. The industry is always evolving and if you get complacent, you'll get left behind. This shouldn't be news to anyone, but if your reaction to hearing it for the first time is "that's too hard, I don't want to do that", then maybe you should go work on your carpentry skills.
> Take a look at the CSS in step 2 of the Lightbox example. Are you kidding me? There’s no way in hell any of that follows logically.
And the other shoe dropped. I took a look at the example step referenced, and it was all very straightforward to me. I realize that this was because I'm already familiar with CSS, but I can't imagine it would take a motivated learner more than a couple minutes to learn what was going on in the code listed.
Programming in general is about always learning new things. The industry is always evolving and if you get complacent, you'll get left behind. This shouldn't be news to anyone, but if your reaction to hearing it for the first time is "that's too hard, I don't want to do that", then maybe you should go work on your carpentry skills.