CSS reply

After reading the Technology Blog entry on CSS, I have several comments.

I do some contracting and the problem of changing technology plagues me as well. If a client wants me to do something obscure that I don't already know how to do (like program hand scanners), I let them know that I will have to learn it and I bill them time. Particularly if it is not a resalable skill.

Something like learning CSS though is a different matter. A client for whom I do a lot of work, I would bill them 1/2 time for learning new skills that would save them time in the future and raise my price for new clients because I would then have more skills and be worth more.

That's just how I do it.