atw: Re: XML - a requirement for a TechWriter looking forwork?
- From: Hedley Finger <hfinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:19:20 +1000
Nikki:
Just go to Seek, Google, or whatever and search for "+(technical|tech)
+(writer|communicator|documenter) +(xml|xhtml|html)". The mechanics of
a boolean search might be different for different job-search engines.
Then make enquiries about the rates of pay on the jobs that turn up.
Of course, you don't need XML to get a job as a technical writer. It's
only needed if you want a higher-paying job. So do your research and
make up your mind whether there is going to be more or less demand in
the near future for people who can do transformations with XSLT, print
output with CSS or XSL-FO, and style interactive pages with fanfolds and
forms.
And for anybody that thinks Dreamweaver or FrontPage (worst
browser-breaking code in the business) is all you need to write an HTML
page, they are kidding themselves. Just visit some of the lists
frequented by CSS and XHTML practitioners and you will be amazed at the
amount of traffic largely relating to hacks to get pages to look the
same on all browsers. These might do for an amateur web site but not
for a bullet-proof corporate site or customise web help for an application.
Oddly enough, Internet Explorer is the main culprit; just google for
hasLayout, the One-Pixel Bug, and the Box Model Hack. You know bugs are
serious when they get capitalised names and become famous. As it
happens, I just ran a test this morning on CSS compliance of IE 7, Opera
9.5, Firefox 3.01, Safari 3.1, Netscape 9.0.0.6, Amaya 10 (from the
W3C, no less!), and SeaMonkey 1.1.11 and they all failed except Opera
and Safari, with Firefox 3.01 (the latest) running an acceptable second.
Whatever IDE you use for XML/XHTML content development, just remember
that Code View is your best friend.
Regards,
Hedley
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