CSS Day 2014
2014-06-04
Amsterdam, Netherlands
CSS Day ·
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| compilation | 01m | |
CSS Day was a one-day advanced CSS conference, taking place on June 4, 2014, in Amsterdam.
Our attendees have been working with CSS for years now. They know… | ||
| Present and Future of CSS Layout | Tab Atkins | 50m |
Demonstrates concrete layout features and their current compatibility: Flexbox unprefixed in modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE11; iOS/Safari still prefix)… | ||
| 3D Transforms | Ana Tudor | 51m |
Builds regular and truncated polyhedra with plain CSS transforms and gradients, computes exact trig (in Sass) for circumradius/inradius and face angles, and… | ||
| Efficient CSS Animations | David Baron | 46m |
Explains which CSS properties avoid layout and paint by running on the compositor—notably opacity and transform—and why that can move most work off the main… | ||
| 3.14 things I didn’t know about CSS | Mathias Bynens | 46m |
Shows concrete surprises: CSS expressions let JavaScript run from CSS (IE5–7) and can be re-enabled via compatibility mode and framing, enabling XSS using only… | ||
| The Mobile Viewports | Peter-Paul Koch | 52m |
Argues there are three concrete mobile viewports — layout, visual, and ideal — and the key claim is that responsive design works because setting the layout… | ||
| Effortless Style | Heydon Pickering | 50m |
Argues that editors keep writing plain content while CSS handles presentation, showing concrete techniques: attribute selectors + pseudo-content to add icons… | ||
| Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design | Ethan Marcotte | 50m |
Opens with Pando — 43 hectares, ~40,000 stems, maybe 80,000 years — and moves to concrete techniques: use an intrinsic-ratio shim (padding-top: 56.25% aspect… | ||
| Speaker Panel | Stephen Hay, Ana Tudor, David Baron, Heydon Pickering, Tab Atkins, Peter-Paul Koch, Mathias Bynens, Ethan Marcotte | 40m |
A live Q&A lists concrete wins and roadblocks: shadow DOM isolates styles so scoped styles are less necessary; web components are shipping and used as the… | ||
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