CSSDAY 2024
2024-06-06..2024-06-07
Amsterdam, Netherlands
CSS Day ·
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who it's for
CSS designers, frontend developers, design system engineers, browser engineers, accessibility engineers, spec writers, engineering managers
topics
fluid typography with clamp; container queries and cqi units; OKLCH and relative color syntax; grid and subgrid layout techniques; CSS masonry layout ordering; reading-order-items proposal; CSS Scroll Timeline animations; utility-first atomic CSS systems; OpenType and optical sizing; anchor() inset-area positioning; 3D transforms with preserve-3d
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Day 2024 compilation | 01m | |
CSS Day 2024 took place on June 6 & 7, in Amsterdam. All sessions are available right now for our Early adopter members, and we'll make a new talk available… | ||
| Web Design Engineering With the New CSS | Matthias Ott | 51m |
Concrete takeaways: browser features replace vague promises — fluid typography with clamp and modular scales actually scale across viewports; container queries… | ||
| Layout and Reading Order | Rachel Andrew | 51m |
Proposal adds a new CSS property called reading-order-items to map keyboard/AT order to visual placement (row/column/flow/grid-order), with a Chrome prototype… | ||
| Utility First CSS Isn’t Inline Styles | Sarah Dayan | 52m |
Claim: utility‑first (atomic) classes are not inline styles because they live in stylesheets and therefore support pseudo‑classes and media queries, complex… | ||
| Character Modeling in CSS | Julia Miocene | 49m |
Five clear steps turn flat divs into a working 3D model: build cubes from nested elements and use transform-style: preserve-3d with perspective, place a lamp… | ||
| Problems solved by OpenType | Roel Nieskens | 51m |
Live demo shows concrete wins: using optical sizing and variable-font axes to swap glyph detail at different sizes, switching numerals between old‑style and… | ||
| Standardization Stories | Elika J. Etemad | 38m |
Twenty years of standards work distilled into concrete decisions: why grid layout picked automatic placement, how scroll snapping moved from points to box… | ||
| The Garden and The Treadmill | Stephen Hay | 59m |
Argues that designers can now sketch and iterate directly in CSS, showing concrete techniques: use grid template areas to "draw" layouts, combine has() and… | ||
| Start over-engineering your CSS | Kevin Powell | 50m |
Two lines of CSS sparks a backlash but leads to concrete wins: using Min() with a 100% fallback fixes overflow without media queries, locally scoped custom… | ||
| The “Other” C in CSS | Sara Soueidan | 56m |
Concrete claims and concrete fixes: CSS changes the accessibility tree (role, name, presence) with examples — Safari removing list semantics when markers are… | ||
| Tab Atkins-Bittner | Anchor Positioning | 54m |
New CSS feature lets absolute-positioned boxes lock to named anchors (author names must start with --) using inset-area and the anchor() function; it exposes… | ||
| Scroll-Enhanced Experiences | Carmen Ansio | 53m |
Demonstrates how the CSS Scroll Timeline API and related features let animations be driven by scroll position instead of time, ties SVG stroke-draws and sprite… | ||
| Impactful Experimentation | Roma Komarov | 43m |
Experiments show concrete techniques: implements space toggles (custom‑property short‑circuiting) and a layer toggle mixin that applies multiple styles with… | ||
| How to Teach CSS | JOSH W COMEAU | 47m |
Explains concrete fixes and why they work: why the mysterious 6.33px gap disappears with display:block instead of blind workarounds like line-height:0, how… | ||
| CSS Masonry Layouts | Nicole Sullivan | 42m |
Browser engines prototype masonry as an extension of CSS Grid with two concrete syntaxes: grid-template-rows: masonry or display: masonry, demos live in Safari… | ||
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