CSSConf Australia 2014
2014-04-25
Melbourne, Australia
[CSSConf Australia 2014, CSSConf Australia 2015, CSSConf Australia 2016]
who it's for
front-end developers, ui engineers, web designers, accessibility engineers, performance engineers, tooling engineers, quality engineers, engineering managers
topics
inline SVG templating and reuse; SVG stroke-dasharray animations; component CSS architecture (SUIT naming); component.json dependency bundling; CSS-only 3D transforms for polyhedra; flexbox layouts with currentColor and rem units; border-image and -webkit-image-set for assets; CSS testing with behavior assertion sheets (bass); WCAG 2AA contrast and relative luminance; subpixel anti-aliasing and color conversion; Sass 3.3 changes and parent selector issues; visual regression testing with PhantomCSS/PhantomJS
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote | Nicole Sullivan | 25m |
Organizer of the first US CSSConf launches the Australian edition, recounts starting CSSConf EU and founding community events, and traces a career through… | ||
| Surprise and delight: CSS + SVG | Chris Wright | 31m |
Shows concrete techniques: use inline SVG with <defs> templating to reuse vectors, animate outlines with stroke-dasharray and animated dashoffset to “draw”… | ||
| Adaptation and Components | Nicolas Gallagher | 28m |
Argues that isolating UI widgets as real components cuts entanglement so teams adapt faster, not just reuse for reuse’s sake. Demonstrates React-style… | ||
| Better Production Decisions with HTML & CSS | Connor Sears | 32m |
Claims that rewrote twitter.com in four weeks and that most design decisions get overridden in code (quotes a joking 94.3% figure) and shows why coding sooner… | ||
| 3D Transforms and Poly... What? | Ana Tudor | 40m |
Explains how to compute edge lengths and face angles with trig to build regular polyhedra purely with CSS transforms, showing a cube made from six pyramids, a… | ||
| Test Your CSS with CSS | Christopher Giffard | 27m |
Claims that CSS becomes a testing language with Behavior assertion sheets and a node module called bass that crawls thousands of pages, asserts things like… | ||
| The Chroma Zone | Lea verou | 45m |
Explains how real pixels use three subpixels and how sub-pixel anti-aliasing can effectively triple horizontal detail, states 24 bits per pixel yields 16.7… | ||
| Styling with Strings | Simurai | 29m |
Shows concrete tricks: use flexbox for a stretch-and-reorder layout, use currentColor so one color property recolors borders, icons and backgrounds, and use… | ||
| What makes Sass so Syntactically Awesome? | Chris Eppstein | 36m |
Tracks Sass history from 2.0 to 3.3 and explains concrete tradeoffs: Sass 3.3 outputs handcrafted CSS while keeping the old API, why features like input… | ||
| Speaker Q&A Panel | Chris Wright, Nicole Sullivan, Lea verou, Ana Tudor, Christopher Giffard, Nicolas Gallagher, Connor Sears, Chris Eppstein | 42m |
Panel records concrete gotchas and tools: Sass treats dashed and underscored variable names as interchangeable causing silent overrides, CSS custom properties… | ||
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