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Anders Jackson

IF no one cares, why ask?

And consensus among CS is neither HTML not CSS are proper programming languages.

That doesn't means that their specifications should not be respected and followed.

I have used HTML from Winter 1992-93 and have ALWAYS tried to respect the specifications behind HTML and CSS when it later came to remove the font tag and table missuse at sites.

So no, a specifications doesn't need to be a programming language to earn respect from programmers.

And No, many/most programmers are good programmets even with vital and huge black holes in their CS knowledge.
That doesn't make them worse programmer.

I also know good CS researchers that have equally huge holes in how one write good programs.

Computer science and being a scientists in that fieald is about understandings and searching for new ways of solving problems.

Being a programming is about using good practices and technologies to solve problems. Not search for understandings and new ways of solving problems.

They overlap, but not totalt.

So again, neither HTML nor CSS are programming languages, and that is fine.
They solve a real problem.