Web Standards advocates often talk about the three “layers” of web development: Structure (markup), Presentation (CSS), and Behavior (JavaScript). This view, however, cuts out the backend of things, and may be a bit shortsighted. Is your markup really where your content’s structure comes from? Can markup really be completely separate from presentation? Is CSS really the only method for presentation? And how does context play into all of this?

Jeff Croft will discuss what happens to the academic three layers when web development happens in the real world.

About the Speaker

Jeff has been working on the web for over 12 years. He began his career as a web designer in 1995, using SimpleText on Macintosh System 7 and Netscape 1.1N as his development environment. Since then, he has worked in several industries, bringing modern web design and development to places where you don’t always find it, including education and journalism. Beyond his work for Blue Flavor, Jeff is a blogger, author, speaker, critic, and industry thought leader.

Prior to joining Blue Flavor, Jeff was a Senior Designer at World Online, an online journalism outfit responsible for a host of award-winning websites and the place of origin for Django, the Python-based open-source web application framework. Jeff has recently co-authored two books, Pro CSS Techniques, published by Apress, and Web Standards Creativity, published by Friends of ED.

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The Full Stack: Reevaluating the “Layers” of Web Development

This Refresh meeting is held at the Ballard Library, located just off Market Street. Please RSVP if you'd like to attend.

And don’t forget that we’ll all head over to The Bal Mar for food and drinks after Refresh. Hope to see you there.