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Why am I still doing this?
Mostly it's just a (good) habit.
Also, it helps to overview the sessions once again at the slightly different angle (and attitude).
The videos will be available shortly, what is the point?
Well, apart from twitter channels and sort, it will be one of the earliest sources of info, after the conference itself. But more importantly, you'll definitely won't want to watch ALL the videos.
My (slightly biased) recommendations might help you to save couple of hours.
Something else?
Yes.
Same as usual - the content is provided as is: some names and titles are totally wrong, some links might be missing, some twitter accounts might be lost in the flow and finally - some feelings might be hurt. Sorry!
The Living Styleguides topic is so hot lately, I'm glad it gets the proper attention at the conferences.
The talk is divided into 2 parts:
- comparing Yandex' past and nowadays in terms of components library maintaining
- handling styleguides and components library documentation with the SC5 tool
To watch: you are into styleguides, but you need a quick intro; you also curious about SC5 application
Not to watch: there are some articles and videos that will guide you through the topic much more engaging
The author is the creator of one, only and beautiful cssicon.space.
Sadly enough, the 80% of the presentation is a live-coding session of drawing (and animating) the moustache using CSS.
To watch: you are craving the inspiration for CSS drawing techniques, it is a nice way to start
Not to watch: you do not give procrastination a chance and you will never apply this to production code
The talks is giving the introduction to the other side of CSS, project Houdini.
Philip references the Smashing Magazine article, featuring it.
If you are in need of supporting some exotic functionality or the regular CSS functionality in the old browsers, probably you may have dealt with polyfills. Perhaps, flexbox is the one worth mentioning.
In 10 minutes Philip demonstrates how to write a polyfill and what (numerous) nuances you would have to face:
- the actual styles can be found in actual styles, not CSSOM
- we need to parse CSS and replace target's value with the polyfilled
- inject the styles back
- mind the inline styles
- mind dynamic changes, e.g. reactivity, scrolling, resizing
- mind the cascade
- ...
- oh :(
and this is where Houdini promises to be helpful
To watch: well-structured and professional talk worth seeing
Not to watch: project Houdini is only mentioned occasionally
Character is not a Glyph (time to know the difference already!).
This is an overview of some font-variant and font-features CSS rules under the flag, but worth checking out in Firefox.
How can one create and make use of custom font?
- COLR + CPAL - there is no styling
- SVG + CPAL - better, but messy
- CSS4 font palette entries - looking forward this one (though CSS4 is a myth as we know)
Font variables?
To watch: you are interested in everything regarding web typography
Not to watch: you won't find anything practical information about font loading performance
Kevin mentions two (email geeks) personas, that are pretty well-known amongst email-developing community:
90% of email clients nowadays are:
- webkit-based
- gmail
- outlook
So fulfilling these shares' interests you are pretty safe.
It is interesting to know the following email-developing techniques:
- fab-four (based on width / min/max-width calculation priority)
- punched card (based on multiple checkboxes next to each other)
- some others
To watch: covers curious aspects of modern email development
Not to watch: you would never use IE conditional comments again
Rapid and informative intro to the CSS variables from the author of CSS Secrets
Variables can have default values.
Variables are inherited.
They make responsive development easier.
You can create custom longhands.
There are ready-to-use proprietary variables like -mouse-x, -mouse-y, --scroll which can basically replace the JS implementation in various useful cases.
And much much more...
To watch: for some reason you've been refraining from the --variables usage, so this will be a great start
Not to watch: you are already using --variables in production and there is nothing left to learn
To watch: somewhat curious way to implement crudge multi-language support in production
To watch: diversity, diversity everywhere
To watch: tricky pseudo elements / box-shadows application
Penner equations!
Cubic-Bezier!
Lerping?
To watch: you will find out the origin of the easing functions and learn a new word
Not to watch: you use easing functions and they just work
Håkon Wium Lie is the co-creator of the web as we know it today with Tim Berns Lee and the author of the CSS.
If you are by occasion keen to print a book using web techniques, this is a great source of inspiration.
There is a quick overview of tools and practical methodics of using CSS to prepare the book for printing.
To watch: some factoids and photos from the pre-web era Not to watch: you are not going to print the PDF book in the nearest future
Thanks for reading!