CSS Day 2015
2015-06-12
Amsterdam, Netherlands
CSS Day ·
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who it's for
css developers, frontend developers, designers, accessibility engineers, web performance engineers, spec writers, browser engineers
topics
responsive design principles; flexbox layout patterns; web typography and font loading; responsive color with HSL(A); background-blend-mode image tinting; CSS Grid Layout and fr unit; grid-template repeat() usage; subgrid feature discussion; preprocessor and postcss tooling; Sass-driven workflows and pitfalls; layout engine phases and reflow; selector performance and class methodologies
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Responsive Principles | Paul Robert Lloyd | 52m |
Claims three practical principles: content‑first conversation — start from plain structured text and serve meaningful alt/transcripted content; universality… | ||
| Flexbox | Zoe Mickley Gillenwater | 54m |
Shows concrete patterns and results: use flexbox as progressive enhancement layered on floats/table-cell, use Modernizr or Sass mixins and Autoprefixer to… | ||
| Typography on the Web | John Daggett | 51m |
Shows where web typography actually improves and where it stalls: WOFF2 ~30% smaller on the Google Fonts corpus, kerning and ligatures are already default in… | ||
| Responsive Color | Clarissa Peterson | 46m |
Explains how HSL(A) makes color math intuitive, shows exact numbers (256 RGB values, 16M combos, 1 in 20 people with color deficiency), and proves responsive… | ||
| CSS Grid Layout | Rachel Andrew | 50m |
Live demos and code show how the CSS Grid Layout module declares grids with grid-template, the repeat() keyword and the fr unit to allocate space, uses line… | ||
| The future of CSS isn’t CSS | Roy Tomeij | 50m |
Argument claims the near future is pre processors not raw CSS and demonstrates concrete Sass work and post CSS tooling like autoprefixer and cssnext The demo… | ||
| Defining “auto” | Elika J. Etemad | 53m |
Layout engine work is broken into four phases: style computation, box tree construction, layout (reflow), and paint and the talk shows concrete rules used at… | ||
| The Back(side) of the Class | Stephen Hay | 48m |
Claims that class-based methodologies solve performance, coupling and maintenance get tested: expert numbers show problems appear only at 20,000 DOM elements… | ||
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