CSSconf EU 2018
as the organisers put it
Dedicated to everyone who loves and writes CSS: On June 1st 2018, CSSconf EU will gather the international CSS community in Berlin, Germany. This is your chance to meet top-notch engineers & web designers, world-class speakers, and CSS-loving people at this one-day, one-track conference.
who it's for
frontend developers, web designers, accessibility engineers, design system engineers, UX designers, developer tools authors, engineering managers
topics
CSS Grid refactoring; CSS custom properties patterns; Container queries with ResizeObserver; Accessible color generation techniques; Vertical and mixed-direction typography; Preprocessors and CSS-in-JS; Browser developer tools features; Cascade and CSS algorithms; Low-vision simulators with WebRTC; CSS containment for responsive components; Design system facilitation practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| It's Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This Team | Trent Willis | 33m |
Conference claims that only 3 out of 10 workers feel their opinion matters and that raising that to six in ten cuts turnover and incidents while boosting… | ||
| Preprocessors, Components, and CSS in JS or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Website | Jackie Balzer | 29m |
A codebase lives through seven continuous years of rewrites and ends up with 50 pages 500 JavaScript files ~1,000 templates, multiple templating engines, and… | ||
| The Web Is Not Just Left-to-Right | Chen Hui Jing | 30m |
Claims that vertical and mixed-direction typography is practical on the web using real CSS features: writing-mode and text-orientation for vertical text, CSS… | ||
| Refactoring with CSS Grid | Oliver Williams | 18m |
Refactors a large content site to use CSS Grid while maintaining Internet Explorer support, replacing JavaScript and backend float hacks with a pure-CSS… | ||
| We have DevTools. What about DesignTools? | Razvan Caliman | 28m |
Overview of concrete tooling and outcomes: browsers add real editors — Local Overrides (Chrome) saves edits to disk and reapplies after refresh while Finch… | ||
| Augmenting Empathy: Simulating Low-Vision Conditions with CSS, SVG and WebRTC | Shwetank Dixit | 24m |
Builds real-time simulators using CSS, SVG color matrix and WebRTC camera to approximate specific low-vision conditions, not vague examples. Demonstrates a… | ||
| Strategy Guide for CSS Custom Properties | Mike Riethmuller | 28m |
Claims: global design tokens tend to be static (a 90% rule), local component values tend to be dynamic; prefer Sass for static globals and CSS custom… | ||
| Accessible by Law! Generating Colors with JS and CSS Custom Properties | Dag-Inge Aas, Ida Aalen | 28m |
Norway’s accessibility law motivates a live system that lets organizations pick any brand color while guaranteeing WCAG contrast by computing variants once in… | ||
| The Algorithms of CSS | Lara Schenck | 27m |
Argues that CSS is a domain-specific declarative programming language, then maps spec to browser source (Servo/Blink) using searchfox.org and cs.chromium.org… | ||
| Container Queries: The Past, Future, and How You Can Actually Even Use Them Today | Philip Walton | 28m |
Explains why native container queries are hard, demonstrates a practical pattern using ResizeObserver plus CSS containment to avoid infinite-layout loops, and… | ||
| Design Systems as Facilitators. | Claudina Sarahe | 25m |
Claims that design systems function as facilitators that create resilient, cross‑team feedback loops and enable organizational autopoiesis. Specific tools… | ||
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