CSSConf Oakland 2014
2014-12-09
Oakland, United States
who it's for
front-end developers, css engineers, ui engineers, email developers, web performance engineers, test automation engineers, designers working in code, engineering managers
topics
responsive email templates; svg animations and filters; css color name history; css variables in browsers; flexbox and grid layout; image-set and density switching; component-based css architecture; visual regression testing pipelines; performance.timing and marks; inlining css for emails; preprocessors and css tooling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Front-End Revolution | Claudina Sarahe | 19m |
Thesis: the revolution is behavioral not technological, tools trigger new habits and collaboration. Evidence: git and GitHub create low‑barrier contribution… | ||
| SVG Can Do That?! | Brenna O'Brien | 22m |
Claims and concrete tricks: SVG actually contains about 80 valid svg elements and supports shape morphing by animating the path d attribute, drawing effects… | ||
| What's in a name? Exploring the origins of CSS color names | Ainsley Wagoner | 17m |
There are exactly 147 colors in the built‑in CSS palette, many inherited from X11 (first shipped 1986, expanded in the 1989 X11 rev 4) and only standardized… | ||
| The Future of CSS | Tab Atkins | 24m |
A tour of concrete features and where they actually run: image function fallbacks and image-set let CSS pick density and fallback colors; crossfade already… | ||
| Tonight We're Gonna Code Like It's 1999: Responsive Emails | Jennifer Wong | 21m |
Redesign of all consumer-facing emails becomes a responsive, table-based codebase that actually works: templates live on GitHub, styles are inlined, and… | ||
| Things I’ve Learned About CSS | Adam Morse | 20m |
Claims that a UI can live in about 20 kilobytes of minified gzipped CSS and still cover common needs, and that namespacing single-purpose classes for three… | ||
| Stuff About Cascading Style Sheets | Mark Otto, Connor Sears | 21m |
Design work moves into production code fast: a design sprint becomes a six‑month rewrite of new new Twitter using HTML and CSS rather than endless PSDs… | ||
| CSS First | Michelle Bu | 19m |
Claims that treating CSS as first class prevents rot and shows concrete tooling: a component library called Bootstripe, a custom preprocessor kfcss built on… | ||
| Real metrics for front-end performance | Ben Schwarz | 20m |
Shows concrete wins and measurements: Amazon finds 100 ms equals ~1% revenue, Etsy adds 160 KB and sees +12% mobile bounce, and average response size grows… | ||
| Implementing a Visual CSS Testing Framework | Jessica Dillon | 18m |
Implements an automated visual CSS regression pipeline that takes full‑page screenshots, diffs them with ImageMagick compare, and stores results on AWS S3… | ||
| I Have No Idea What I'm Doing | Elyse Holladay | 28m |
Claim: impostor feelings come from moving things from the we don't know we don't know box into the you know you don't know box, not from actual incompetence… | ||
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