Got a chance to attend the second edition of CSS Summit, organized by Environment For Humans. There were several CSS experts (8, to be exact), sharing their experiences and tips to improve the CSS development. Overall, the session was so informative and worth the money. Here’s some tit-bits from the summit.
- Summit started at 7:30 PM (IST) evening and lasted till 3:30 AM (IST) the next day early morning. People in my conference room were all awake and listening to the presentation till the end, which was wonderful.
- Topics discussed in the summit includes: CSS3 Progressive enhancement, CSS3 transitions and transforms, CSS and iPhone development, Sass and Compass, detecting CSS bugs and How Facebook improved its CSS files.
- Along with the video conferencing, there was a public chat window open for the attendees to ask questions and discuss. At time, the chat window turned to be so much fun and interesting than the presentations itself. Few samples, taken from the chat window:
- “Anything other than IE is a modern browser” ~ someone.
- One lady gave a suggestion to know more about people profiles who were chatting (she meant the profession, technical background, etc). Immediately she got a reply asking A/S/L!
- “never use CSS transformations on * selector unless you want to go ROTFL” ~ someone.
- There was a lot of discussion on using @font-face. Presenters gave several tools and tricks to use the web fonts effectively. And I’m sure @font-face is going to be used widely and it’ll replace the way we use fonts now in web pages.
- Some of the tools: Font Squirrel, Google Font API , CSS3Please, Gradients Generator, CSS3 Generator, CSS3 tools.
- And, here are the presenters (follow them for some good content):
- Estelle Weyl – @estellevw
- Zoe M. Gillenwater – @zomigi
- Jason CranfordTeague – @JasonSpeaking
- Denise R. Jacobs – @denisejacobs
- Chris Eppstein – @chriseppstein
- Nicole Sullivan – @stubbornella
- Stephanie Sullivan – @stefsull
- Dave McFarland – @davemcfarland
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IE has such a bad crush in UI developers. Even in my work I found that IE is so tolerant to many JavaScript and CSS functions that creates problem in other browsers.
Just like for an element that has a name. IE has no problem if you call
form.getElementById ("name"). And it will give you the object.Thanks for sharing Twitter profile of presenters.
you are welcome!