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CSS in Depth — Keith J. Grant
Episode 144 • Published Aug 05, 2018
Keith J. Grant stops by to talk with Christopher about his new book, CSS in Depth, and what he’s discovered about the design language of the web during the writing process.
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Links and Show Notes
Time Jumps
- 0:50 How’d you get involved with the web?
- 2:45 What was your talk about at CSS Dev Conf?
- 4:10 Setting font sizes to pixels vs ems/rems.
- 7:50 What was the process for writing your book?
- 12:50 What CSS topics did you have to leave out?
- 16:10 Covering CSS grid and float in the same book?
- 17:10 What’s sub grid?
- 23:20 Why is CSS the most neglected part of the web stack?
- 26:30 What’s new about CSS that you learned writing this book?
- 28:00 Do you just port animations over to JavaScript now?
Links:
- Christopher Schmitt
- Christopher Schmitt on Twitter
- KeithJGrant
- @KeithJGrant on Twitter
- Keith Grant on GitHub
- CSS in Depth
- Stop Thinking in Pixels
- CSS Secrets by Lea Verou
- CSS The Definitive Guide
- Resilient, Declarative, Contextual