CSSConf EU 2019
2019-05-31
Berlin, Germany
[CSSConf EU 2013, CSSconf EU 2014, CSSconf EU 2015, CSS Conf EU 2017, CSSconf EU 2018, CSSConf EU 2019]
as the organisers put it
Dedicated to everyone who loves and writes CSS: CSSconf EU is a one-day, one-track community conference that unites world-class speakers, top-notch engineers & web designers, and many more with an affinity for CSS in Berlin, Germany.
who it's for
front-end developers, web designers, UI engineers, accessibility engineers, performance engineers, tooling engineers
topics
CSS subgrid layout; Grid and Flexbox DevTools; variable fonts with custom properties; visual regression testing with Cypress; CSS containment property; logical properties for RTL; utility-first CSS systems; component design and checklist; Houdini paint and layout worklets; Typed OM and registerProperty
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | Nicolas Zimmel, Silke Sieler, Thomas Schindler, Michael Fakesch | 04m |
Opening for CSSconf EU 2019 presents a short staged sequence with music and applause, animation by Silke Sieler and Thomas Schindler, sound design by Michael… | ||
| Why Do We Call HTML Tags "Tags"? – Andrés Cuervo at | Andres Cuervo | 12m |
Claims that the word “tag” traces to Emil Post’s 1943 tag system, ties that formal model to IBM’s GML/SGML lineage, and shows SGML seeding HTML (originally… | ||
| Hello Subgrid! – Rachel Andrew at | Rachel Andrew | 33m |
Explains that subgrid is a concrete value for grid-template-columns/rows that lets nested grids share parent tracks so card headers and footers line up, with… | ||
| Using DevTools To Understand Modern CSS Layouts – Chen Hui Jing at | Chen Hui Jing | 33m |
Live DevTools demos use Firefox’s Flexbox and Grid inspectors to show exact calculations: flex-basis auto vs 0 changes free‑space distribution, fr columns… | ||
| Modern Typographic Systems With Variable Fonts | Jason Pamental | 32m |
Variable fonts plus CSS custom properties and calc actually let typography scale fluidly by size, weight, width and grade rather than by extra files, with… | ||
| Writing Tests For CSS Is Possible! Don’t Believe The Rumors | Gil Tayar | 27m |
Claim: CSS can be tested with visual regression testing that actually prevents fear of refactors. The demo uses Cypress + Applitools Eyes (and mentions… | ||
| Let’s web dev like it’s 1999! | Ben Ilegbodu | 28m |
Shows a working GeoCities-era site updated via FTP updates, with a Comic Sans Paint-made logo, a hit counter that claims tens of thousands, and pages built… | ||
| Improving Website Performance with CSS Containment | Manuel Rego | 25m |
Spec introduces a single property "contain" with values layout paint size style and shows concrete wins from real benchmarks and browser work Chrome ships it… | ||
| CSS Logical Properties | Estefany Aguilar | 26m |
Explains that replacing left/right/top/bottom with logical properties fixes RTL and vertical scripts, demonstrates margin-block-start, padding-inline-end and… | ||
| Class 🥊Clash | Alex Tait | 28m |
Argues that adopting a utility-first system cuts CSS bloat and speeds prototyping: a demo refactors a semantic grid into tachyons.io, deletes the stylesheet… | ||
| A Working Theory Of Components | Elyse Holladay | 24m |
A practical theory claims a component must be easy to reason about, context-agnostic, and independent and isolated; a concrete checklist (in contributing docs)… | ||
| Design System Magic with CSS Houdini | Samuel Richard | 27m |
Explains concrete Houdini features and how to use them: worklets (paint, layout) run at render-engine speeds; paint worklet demos draw generative backgrounds… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Sareh Heidari | 15m |
Conference history and concrete outcomes matter: six events since 2013, a program that surfaces CSS Grid, variable fonts, animations and things labeled in the… | ||
| Last of Type | 07m | |
A montage of CSSconf EU 2019 documents what was built and why it mattered: a one-day single-track community event with a community lounge, prayer and quiet… | ||
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