Refresh Seattle - The Full Stack: Reevaluating the "Layers" of Web Development October 30, 2007

Ballard Public library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W.
Seattle, Washington 98107

About the Talk

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.

Please RSVP for this event as space is limited!



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.



After the Talk

Don't forget that we all head over to the BalMar for food and drinks after every Refresh Seattle talk. Hope to see you there!

Official Website: http://www.refreshseattle.org/

Added by nickf on October 15, 2007

Comments

jcroft

I've decided I will attend this event, I guess. :)

Hope to see you all there!

nickf

Pizza, soda, candy corn, need I say more?

zachhale

I'd really like to be there but I can't! Have a great presentation and if you post slides anywhere please let me/the-upcoming-people know.

nickf

Any pizza preferences? last week we had one pepperoni and one hawaiian. Let me know if you have a specific preference and I will see what I can do.

TachikomaDev

Pepperoni is fine for me...what's the limit for these meetings? This will be my first Refresh Seattle event and I have a guest that would like to attend.