50: The Evolution of CSS

Summary In episode 50 we talk with CSS master Tab Atkins Jr. (@tabatkins) about the history of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) & how they have evolved into what we use today. We also cover preprocessors, lesser known specs, css as a programming language, and more. Resources Tab Atkin’s personal site - http://www.xanthir.com/ Tab on Github - https://github.com/tabatkins Tab at CSSConf 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad1Wq0qZrMQ History of CSS - http://www.w3.org/Style/LieBos2e/history/Overview.html Houdini - https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts Parse CSS - https://github.com/tabatkins/parse-css CSS Working Group News - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work How to read CSS specifications - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/read Lesser known CSS Specs Ruby - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ruby/ Scoping Module - http://www.w3.org/TR/css-scoping-1/ Speech Module - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/ Writing Modes - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-writing-modes/ Line Grid - http://www.w3.org/TR/css-line-grid-1/ Page Fragmentation - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-break/ Do we even need CSS anymore ? - https://css-tricks.com/the-debate-around-do-we-even-need-css-anymore/ CSS1 Spec - http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1/ Selectors Level 4 - http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors4/ Values & Units - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/ Image Values / Replaced Content - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-images/ Device Adaptation - http://www.w3.org/TR/css-device-adapt/ Web Animations - http://www.w3.org/TR/web-animations/ SASS- http://sass-lang.com\ animate.css - https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/ myth.io - http://myth.io bikeshed - https://github.com/tabatkins/bikeshed CSS Grid By Example - http://gridbyexample.com/ Panelists Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Chrome HTML5 Google Developer Expert Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro) - Wearables & Chrome HTML5 Google Developer Expert Nick Niemeir (@nickniemeir) - Partner at Good News Everyone