Ben Henick
Ben Henick has been building Web sites since September 1995, when he took on his first Web project as an academic volunteer. He has worked in nearly every aspect of site design and development, from foundation HTML through finicky CSS to larger scale architecture and content management. Apart from his recent O'Reilly title, he has written for A List Apart, the Web Standards Project, and most recently for Opera Software's Web Standards Curriculum.
Abstraction in web apps: an idea, not an ideology
Create the Web instead of colonizing it.
Some weeks ago, when it was still wintry in one half of U.S.A. and anything but in the other half, I encountered the following Tweet:
The old man seemed lost and friendless. “I miss static HTML,” he said.
— Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) March 12, 2015
I’m grateful to call Jeffrey Zeldman a friend, seeing as he’s a terrific guy in addition to being one of the foremost doyens of web design. In that sentiment and with the wish to call attention to his lament, I replied:
@zeldman Story of my last five years, that. When did simplification & removal of dependencies become subversive?
— Ben Henick (@bhenick) March 12, 2015
…And now I get to unpack all of that, as briefly as possible.