dotCSS 2015
who it's for
frontend developers, css authors, web designers, tooling developers, browser engineers, spec contributors, performance engineers
topics
flexbox layout; css grid layout; box alignment model; css custom properties; Houdini custom paint; css filters; blend modes; css Shapes; will-change compositing; GPU compositing with translate; typed object model (Houdini)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The New CSS Layout | Rachel Andrew | 17m |
Claims that Flexbox, CSS Grid Layout and the Box Alignment Model form a cohesive new layout system and demonstrates actual code: flex: 1 1 200px showing… | ||
| The expanding boundaries of CSS | Chris Eppstein | 20m |
Claims that CSS is expanding from a simple declarative styling language into a richer platform, citing property counts (CSS1 53, CSS2 122, CSS3 ~316) and… | ||
| Editing Images in CSS | Una Kravets | 16m |
CSS manipulates photos in-browser using actual features: 10 filters (blur, contrast, sepia, hue-rotate, etc.), blend modes (multiply, screen, color, overlay)… | ||
| Becoming Responsible for CSS | Alan Stearns | 17m |
Work on CSS moves from vague goals to concrete actions: publish bugs with W3C-style tests, vote for browser feature bugs, and measure polyfill costs — one… | ||
| Transform Alchemy | Tom Giannattasio | 16m |
Demonstrates concrete techniques: a color picker maps pointer angle (atan2) to hue and scale; builds CSS 3D primitives (cube, cylinder) with background-offset… | ||
| Pushing CSS to new frontiers | Daniel Glazman | 28m |
CSS shows concrete gaps: 65+ active spec documents but only ~30 people actively stewarding them, and core APIs remain weak. The CSSOM lacks a selector object… | ||
| nothing matches | ||