CSSConf Australia 2016
2016-11-30
Melbourne, Australia
[CSSConf Australia 2014, CSSConf Australia 2015, CSSConf Australia 2016]
who it's for
front-end developers, accessibility engineers, performance engineers, design systems engineers, ux designers, web developers
topics
offline-first mobile app UIs; accessibility checklists integrated into QA; AMP HTML and AMP cache; CSS Modules with webpack; D3-driven SVG gradients and filters; Houdini paint and layout worklets; progressive image rendering with IntersectionObserver; WebP thumbnails and dominant-color placeholders; government-scale style guides with KSS and Sass; reusable rule sets and CSS variables
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Human Compatibility Error: How novice tech users in West Africa respond to your fancy CSS | Ally Long | 27m |
Built apps collect case data for Ebola polio and sleeping sickness and ship a dashboard that maps contacts and vaccination gaps including maps of previously… | ||
| Accessibility matters. Let’s do something about it | Ally Palanzi | 23m |
A six‑person group spends two days documenting role‑specific best practices, outputs an open‑source checklist and a checklist‑builder at… | ||
| Getting 'Up To Speed' with Accelerated Mobile Pages | Michael Rog | 32m |
Claims that AMP makes pages render above the fold in under a second and that Google backing plus a CDN cache make that practical, supported by concrete numbers… | ||
| At Least 6 Ways to Win with CSS Modules | Josh Johnston | 30m |
Concrete claims and demos: CSS Modules yields six ways to improve a component CSS architecture, shown with a leaderboard/avatar example and real build tooling… | ||
| SVGs beyond mere shapes | Nadieh Bremer | 29m |
Uses D3 with JS and CSS to show exact techniques and working code: building data-driven radial gradients for planets and stars, appending per-element gradients… | ||
| Hey presto, CSS! | Barak Chamo | 29m |
Houdini gives low level access to the CSS engine so developers can register custom parsers, typed properties and layout and paint worklets that run off the… | ||
| Progressive image rendering | José M. Pérez | 25m |
Images account for about two thirds of transferred bytes and changing how and when they load cuts real cost: Spotify overhauls a high‑traffic page and saves… | ||
| The Ideal Styling Language: a gedankenexperiment | Serena Chen | 21m |
Argues the cascade is useful but remove !important solves the worst wars, proposes native reusable rule sets (Sass-style functions compiled into CSS) so markup… | ||
| Building a style guide for all Australians | Petra Gulicher | 19m |
A government-wide design system is delivered as a working CSS framework and living design guide in under three months, aimed at taming over 2,200 Australian… | ||
| nothing matches | ||