109 CSS Performance and Maintenance

Summary

Harry Roberts (@CSSWizardry) talks with us about scaling CSS in code and across large teams. We also discuss the CSS in the Web Platform standards, the history of CSS, refactoring code, as well as projects like Houdini which aims ‘to jointly develop features that explain the “magic” of Styling and Layout on the web.’

Resources

• Harry’s website - http://csswizardry.com/
• Github - https://github.com/csswizardry
• The 3 I’s of refactoring - http://csswizardry.com/2016/08/refactoring-css-the-three-i-s/
• Mixins better for performance - http://csswizardry.com/2016/02/mixins-better-for-performance/
• Houdini W3C Drafts Wiki  - https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/wiki
• What is Houdini? - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/houdini-maybe-the-most-exciting-development-in-css-youve-never-heard-of/
• Jen Simmons on Feature Queries in CSS - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/08/using-feature-queries-in-css/
• CSS Triggers - https://csstriggers.com/
• The languages that were almost CSS - https://eager.io/blog/the-languages-which-almost-were-css/
• Image issues with Base64 article - https://99designs.com.au/tech-blog/blog/2016/07/14/real-world-http-2-400gb-of-images-per-day/