Web Standards Killed the HTML Star – JeffCroft.com
▻http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2014/jan/03/web-standards-killed-the-html-star
once the browsers don’t suck, being an HTML and CSS “guru” isn’t really a very marketable skillset. 80% of what made us useful was the way we knew all the quirks and intracries of the browsers. Guess what? Those are all gone. And if they’re not, they will be in the very near future. Then what?
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In some ways, the Web Standards Movement killed the Web Standards Guru. We all should have seen this coming. The goal of the Web Standards Movement was for it to not have to exist — for the browsers to be good enough that there wasn’t a need for such a movement.
Or rather, that there wasn’t a need for you. Diversify or die.