CSSConf Budapest 2017
as the organisers put it
CSSConf Budapest is a community conference dedicated to the designers and developers who love CSS. For the community, from the community. Part of the international CSSConf family.
who it's for
front-end developers, web designers, accessibility specialists, performance engineers, UX designers, engineering managers, technical educators
topics
CSS custom properties runtime access; SVG object-fit and masking techniques; responsive SVG embedding techniques; CSS animations for perceived speed; accessibility-focused typography and contrast; progressive enhancement and feature detection; performance audits with network and CPU throttling; skeleton screens and loading patterns; teaching layout: floats, flexbox, grid; developer wellbeing and productivity practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Debugger for developers | Denys Mishunov | 43m |
Argues for using a debugger on ourselves to fix three concrete bugs: perfectionist paralysis, impostor phenomenon, and long hours. Cites numbers: two in five… | ||
| The [svg] of .svg | Sara Soueudan | 39m |
Shows concrete recipes: use viewBox plus preserveAspectRatio="slice" to reproduce CSS object-fit/position and crop user uploads entirely in SVG, working back… | ||
| The human aspects of CSS | Aga Napolcha, Marta Sztybor | 26m |
Local workshops recruit more than 3,000 applicants and run as a compact course of 80 hours with 11 mentors, 64 attendees, and hands‑on exercises that move from… | ||
| Why Fast Matters | Harry Roberts | 44m |
A case study shows shaving 0.3s = £8.1m from a train-ticket checkout; Netflix cuts costs by 43% bandwidth saved by gzip; GQ reduces load time 80% and gains 32%… | ||
| CSS Variables A New Hope | Mauricio Palma | 27m |
Claims that CSS custom properties are accessible at runtime to JavaScript, demonstrates a clip-path spotlight from four SVG circles and builds a galaxy made of… | ||
| The Shady Web: Using CSS for Good, not Evil | Heidi Olsen | 19m |
Argues CSS animation reduces cognitive load and can make waits feel 12 percent faster with progress cues rather than GIFs; shows concrete patterns that work —… | ||
| Writing CSS with Accessibility in Mind | Manuel Matuzović | 30m |
Shows concrete CSS fixes and real regressions: use larger fonts and 1.5 line-height, enforce 45–75 characters per line via max-width using the ch unit, measure… | ||
| Natural Language Analysis of Song Lyrics | Anton McConville | 40m |
Built apps that pull lyrics into Watson Personality Insights via a Python runtime and show per-album Big Five scores, plus a real-time tone analyzer demo… | ||
| Web development isn't about you, dude | Charlie Owen | 34m |
Argues that real-world constraints matter: many users have old devices, slow or metered networks and 12% have disabilities, so build with progressive… | ||
| nothing matches | ||