What's new in CSS land

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Una Kravets, web platform ambassador & lead of the Google Chrome UI Developer Relations Team, joins Amal & Nick to take them CSS to school as they start this podcast in CSS kindergarten and end it with a Level-Up CSS Diploma. (LUCD?)

We explore all the amazing features which have recently landed in CSS — enabling super-charged user experiences with no JavaScript. Don’t forgot to check out all the epic links & demos in the show notes — and hold on to your butts, kids, this one is a ride!

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Featuring:

• Una Kravets – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• What’s new in CSS UI 2023 (the blog post we referenced on the show)
• CSS Podcast - UNA and Adam’s AMAZZZZZZING Podcast - 🙌🏾❤️ Like and Subscribe ❤️🙌🏾
• Igalia
• Bocoup
• Follow Lea Verou and Chris Lilley for CSS Leveling up
• Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously (Lea’s blog post)
• Releasing Color.js (Chris’ blog post)
• Contrast Ratio (a helpful tool to help find the right contract ratios)
• High Definition CSS Color Guide
• What is a color space?
• New color spaces!
• Proposal for “open-stylable” Shadow Roots (aka breaking shadow DOM encapsulation
• CSS Nesting
• Can I Use
• MDN Baseline - a unified view of stable web features
• What are Origin Trials?
• Origin Trials available via Chrome
• Origin Trials available via FireFox
• Origin Trials available via Edge
• “Accessibly blueberry muffin analogy” - Baking Accessibility In (Talk from Cordelia McGee-Tubb)
• “Accessibility is Delicious” - great blog post referencing Cordelia’s talk
• Trigonometric functions in CSS
• nth of syntax
• nth-of-child & nth-of-last-child Codepen demo
• Scoped CSS
• Scoped CSS Codepen demo
• Cascade Layers
• Cascade Layers Codepen demo
• Una’s wonderful YouTube video explaining CSS Cascade Layers
• Popover API
• Anchor positioning
• Scroll driven animations
• Scroll driven animations demo site (scroll-driven-animations.style)
• Container Queries
• Style Queries
• Linear Easing Function MDN
• Create complex animation curves in CSS with the linear() easing function
• Linear Easing Generator (a tool via Jake Archibald)
• View Transitions API
• View Transitions Guide
• View Transitions support in Svelte
• View Transitions support in Astro
• :has() API
• web.dev- Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser
• developer.chrome.com - Simplifying the web to help you build, grow and innovate

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Welcoming Una back (00:00:56)

3. Quick intro to Una (00:03:02)

4. Una's background (00:07:27)

5. Choose your CSS adventure (00:08:27)

6. Start with color (00:10:06)

7. Foundational stuff (00:16:26)

8. Origin trials (00:20:42)

9. Scoping (00:25:29)

10. Cascade layers (00:28:18)

11. Ordering layers (00:30:02)

12. How !important works (00:33:41)

13. Components (00:37:24)

14. Why now? (00:42:29)

15. Anchor positioning (00:45:46)

16. Interactivity (00:47:43)

17. Container queries (00:52:18)

18. The :has selector (00:56:44)

19. Obligatory AI question (00:59:20)

20. Separating logic & style (01:01:26)

21. Nick's Tailwind tangent (01:08:21)

22. Closing time (01:12:52)

23. Outro (01:13:35)