Why wouldn't you start off with sensible defaults and then customize to achieve your vision? That's not the realm of newbies, it's just common sense. This post reads to me like a back-handed compliment. Given that only dummies use stuff like this, he admits that at times we are all dummies, so let's take it easier on the dummies. It's a false premise.

There's a lot to say here, but I'll limit my comment to LOL at the idea that IE reports the exact line number of a javascript error.