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<title> Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now</title>
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<h1>Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now</h1>
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<p><img src="zeldman.jpg" /> IN <a href="http://danielmall.com/articles/content-display-patterns/">"CONTENT
Display Patterns"</a> (which all front-end folk should read),
Dan Mall points to a truth not unlike the one <a href="https://24ways.org/2015/putting-my-patterns-through-their-paces/">Ethen
Marcotte shared last month</a> on 24 ways. It is a
truth as old as sandards-based desgin: Construct your markup to properly support your content (not
your design).</p>
<p>Modular/<a href="http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/">atomic design</a> doesn't change
this truth, it just reinforces its wisdom. <a href="https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/">Flexbox</a>
and <a href="https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/">grid
layouts</a> don't change this truth, they just make it easier to do it better. <a href="http://html5forwebdesigners.com/design/index.html">HTML5</a>
doesn't change this truth, it just reminds us that the separation of structure from style came into existence for a
reason. A reason that hasn't changed. A reason that cannot change, because it is the core truth of
the web, and is inextricably bound up with the promise of this medium.</p>
<p>Separating structure from style and behaviour was the web standards monement's prime revelation,
and each generation of web designers discovers it anew. This separation is what makes our content
as backward-compatible as it is foware-compatible (or <a href="http://futurefriendlyweb.com/">"future-friendly,"</a>
if you prefer). It's the key
to re-use. The key to accessibility. The key to the new kinds of CMS systems we're just beginning
to dream up. It's what makes our content as accessible to an ancient device as it will be to an
unimagined future one.</p>
<p>Every time a leader in our field discovers, as if for the first time, the genius of this separation
between style, presentation, and behaviour, he/she is validating the brillance of the web forbears like
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kon_Wium_Lie">Hakon Wium Lie</a>, and
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Bos">Bert Bos</a>.</p>
<p>Every time a Dan or an Ethan (or a <a href="https://sarasoueidan.com/">Sara</a>
or a <a href="http://lea.verou.me/">Lea</a>) writes a beautiful and insightful article like the
two cited above, they are telling new web designers, and remindind experienced ones, that this separation
of powers matters.</p>
<p>And they are plunging a stake into the increasingly slippery ground beneath us.</p>
<p>Whit is it slippery? Because too many developers and designers in our amnesiac community have
begun to believe and share bad ideas-ideas, like CSS isn't needed, HTML isn't needed,
<a href="http://alistapart.com/article/understandingprogressiveenhancement">progressive
enhancement</a> is old-fashinoned and unnecessary, and so on. Ideas that, if followed, will turn the web
back what it was becoming in the late 1990s: a wasteland of walled gardens that said no t more people
than they welcomed. Let that never be so. We have the power.</p>
<p> As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides">Maimonides</a>, we he alove today,
would tell us: he who exludes a single user destroys a universe.
Web standards now and forever.</p>
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<p>Originally publised at <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/2016/01/05/13913/">www.zeldman.com</a>
on January 5, 2016</p>
<p>Designing and blogging since 1995, <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/">Jeffry Zeldman</a> is the publisher
of <a href+"http://alistapart.com/">A List Apart</a> Magazine and
<a href="http://abookapart.com/">A Book Apart</a>, co-founder of
<a href="http://aneventapart.com/">An Event Apart</a> design conference, and founder and creative director of
<a href="http://studio.zeldman.com/">studio.zeldman</a>. Follow him
<a href="https://twitter.com/zeldman">@zeldman.</a></p>
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