New Perspectives On Web Design

(C. Jardin) #1
By Harry Roberts CHAPTER 1


  • Our old ideals have been holding us back, and we need to leave some of
    these misconceptions behind in order to be able to deliver today’s
    Web, which is a vastly different beast from what it was during the
    first wave of Web standards.

  • We need to take a more pragmatic and engineering-led approach to code.
    Code is not art; it is not meant to be pretty. It is a powerful tool that
    we need to manipulate to create bigger, faster, more robust websites.
    Borrowing paradigms from developers and engineers can help us
    no end.

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