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In case anyone is wondering whether @anarodrigues and I found each other - yes we did :) and we found a @Kilian too amongst many other lovely people! #CSSDay
Dude. Feel like I'm back in my old engineering maths lectures 😵💫
(I say this with love, @matthiasott. Indeed CSS *is* a programming language)
Re alt text - will add more code specifics later, sorry! Thank goodness for editing, thanks Mastodon 🦣
I am going to use "dorkmode" to mean going into joyous coding flow from now on.
Big oooohhhhhhhhhh moment, "what can my font do?" - https://wakamaifondue.com
I needed someone to say it out loud apparently 😆🤦
Sarah Dyan was introduced as being "very brave" for coming to #CSSDay and talking about utility-first CSS!
I agree but I'm happy to listen :)
My biggest grievance with tailwind in particular is how it's cemented breakpoints, while going fluid feels much better.
It may just be that there's a lag between what CSS can do now, and what surfaces through tailwind and other utility first frameworks.
I dunno 🤷
I guess I think utility styles are a good tool that can be used *alongside* normal CSS.
I agree with this quote. Forgive. Yes.
But especially if our job *is* to keep up and understand, we still need to strive for it, even if we're forgiven for falling behind.
None of the excellent new heavy-JS-replacing CSS would be used if we didn't do so. Hence this conference. Hence all this discourse online. Hence all the articles and posts and advocating and devrels and working groups. Hence the arguments and controversy.
We want to improve life for everyone online. It's important.
CSS
is
a style sheet language
that allows the **intent** of the **designer** to be communicated to a **browser** that **executes** on it
Not only @fantasai's talk today is reinforcing for me that "web design" is not dead.
We are not unicorns. Front end developers, once web designers, can and do *design*. We can! We do! We design with code, or in code. It's not unusual. Why the silos?
We need a box before we can think outside of it.
CSS gives us tons of boxes, it's all boxes! And people are definitely doing amazing things with it.
Thank you for an excellent day 1, #CSSDay 🧡
Aaahhh yes @rachelandrew is going into the problem of placing content in CSS grid, and having it confuse the visual order Vs DOM order, tabbing order, screen reader order.
reading-order-items (CSS Display Level 4) might help. It's in drafting stage. Here's hoping 🙏
Not all possibilities included in pictures attached here, see more at https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-4/#reading-order-items