Posts tagged “css”, page 2

Andy Bell:

It’s getting exhausting spending so much of my time defending one of the three pillars of the web: CSS. It should sit equal with HTML and JavaScript to produce accessible, progressively enhanced websites and web apps that help everyone achieve what they need to achieve.

Jeremy Keith:

It’s not that CSS in inherently incapable of executing complex conditions. Quite the opposite. It’s precisely because CSS selectors (and the cascade) are so powerful that we choose to put guard rails in place.

I’ve been taking a lot of interest in this topic ever since I started working on my own reset/boilerplate — Cobalt.

Rachel Andrew:

There is frequently talk about how developers whose main area of expertise is CSS feel that their skills are underrated. I do not think we help our cause by talking about CSS as this whacky, quirky language. CSS is unlike anything else, because it exists to serve an environment that is unlike anything else. However we can start to understand it as a designed language, with much consistency. It has codified rules and we can develop ways to explain and teach it, just as we can teach our teams to use Bootstrap, or the latest JavaScript framework.

Kevin Ball:

“Real programmers” were antisocial, geeky, and only cared about computing. If you didn’t fit the profile you didn’t belong.

With the growth of the importance of front-end development, we’re seeing the story play out again.

The systematic devaluation of CSS, and more, the people who use CSS.

Sara Soueidan:

Using the color wheel to pick colors has many benefits. One of the main advantages of HSL is that creating color harmonies becomes a piece of cake.

Jeremy Keith:

Frankly, the whole point of prefixed CSS is that is not used after a reasonable amount of time (originally, the idea was that it would not be used in production, but that didn’t last long). As we’ve moved away from prefixes to flags in browsers, I’m seeing the amount of prefixed properties dropping, and that’s very, very good. I’ve stopped using autoprefixer on new projects, and I’ve been able to remove it from some existing ones—please consider doing the same.

Browser prefixes seem to be slowly going away. I stopped using Autoprefixer last year and haven’t missed it.

Amazing video from CSS Day 2017:

In this session the two inventors of CSS will talk about what they’d do differently if they could design CSS all over again.

Jen Simmons introduces the concept of Intrinsic Web Design. It’s a bold idea that brings together all recent advances in CSS layout. It really feels like a paradigm shift — I love it.

Jeremy Keith’s notes are a good companion to the slides, and code examples can be found in Jen’s CodePen.

Update: a video of the talk is now available.