I spoke at An Event Apart yesterday, you can see my slides and resources here. One of the themes of my talk is that anyone can contribute to the web platform, and CSS in particular. I had loads of questions from atttendees about this so here is a quick list of getting started suggestions, with … Getting involved with the web platform
A couple of weeks ago I spoke at Frontend NE in Newcastle, a big part of my talk was explaining what the CSS Grid Subgrid feature from Grid Level 2 would contain. With no implementation to work with, I had mocked up a bunch of demos using DevTools for that talk. En route to San … CSS Subgrid News and demos
A thing I keep hearing, and especially when talking about subgrid is, “nested grids … isn’t that like tables within tables in the olden days?” It is not. This is why. When you want to use grid layout, what you are doing is changing the display property on a containing element, asking it to lay … Are nested grids like nested tables?
I am increasingly spending my time giving CSS workshops, both in-house for teams and public ticketed workshops. I have a few planned over the next few months which still have availability, and would love to book in further workshops later in the year. Get in touch if you would like me to come to your … Upcoming CSS Layout Workshops
I don’t apply to many Call for Papers right now, because I just get so busy. If a CFP isn’t going to announce for a few months, I don’t want to apply and then have some other thing fill that gap before the decisions are made. One CFP I do tend to put an idea … CSSconf EU, Grid Layout, and me
Last year I published a post on Smashing Magazine introducing Logical Properties and Values, flow-relative mappings for the physical properties and values we use on the web. For example, instead of width you might use inline-size, and the dimension would then be correct whether you were in a horizontal or vertical writing mode. Take a … More logical properties
Everyone is angry about CSS again. I’m not even going to try to summarize the arguments. However it always seems to boil down to the fact that CSS is simultaneously too easy to bother with, yet so hard it needs to be wrapped up in a ball of JavaScript in case it scares the horses. … HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
Back in September of last year, I explained the plans of the Dutch organisation Fronteers, in a post on Smashing Magazine. In that post I also explained what it is to be a W3C Invited Expert, and some of my motivations around working on CSS. That post was written prior to a vote by the … Fronteers, The W3C, and me
Another year flies by. Here are some of the things I’ve managed to pack into the last 12 months. TripIt tells me that I was on the road for 160 days, travelling 284,347 km to 47 cities in 15 countries. Most of that was conference travel, along with CSS Working Group Meetings, and a couple … That was 2018
A little while back at An Event Apart Chicago, I chatted to Rob Weychert about a grid use case he felt the spec couldn’t solve. He has now written that use case up, which you can read on his blog – Editorial Layouts, FLoats, and CSS Grid. At the time I thought that this sounded … Editorial Layouts, Exclusions, and CSS Grid