Weekend Presentation: The CSS of Tomorrow
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Weekend Presentation: The CSS of Tomorrow

on Sep 17th 2011 with 14 comments

Just because you didn’t get to go to that awesome conference doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! We’ve featured Peter Gasston a couple of times recently, so we’ll round off the week with him talking at a London Web Standards meetup about the future of CSS3.

A brief recap of the most prominent features of CSS3 and a look into the short- and long-term future of the language.

Speaker: Peter Gasston
Event: London Web Standards meetup
Additional: Slides available
Duration: 27 mins

The CSS of Tomorrow


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  • http://www.croftmedia.co.uk/ Greg

    Great talk; really interesting.

  • http://twitter.com/drale2k Drazen Mokic

    Really nice talk.

    CSS is getting really huge as a language. We need to keep it as simple as possible in its syntax, otherwise it will become a mess.

    • http://www.adesignlink.com Chad P

      CSS is large now. But this is because of all of the vender prefixes. I don’t know about you but i would much rather use “.selector p {columns:3;}” than 4 classes to do the same thing. But I agree that css can become a bit messy which is why these new SASS/LESS style mixins and so on would be great. it would clean up our css a lot.

      • http://broken-links.com/ Peter Gasston

        Don’t forget that the prefixes are only temporary; as the properties become standardised, the prefixes will be dropped. This is what’s happening right now with border-radius; right now we still use -moz- and -webkit- to support older browsers, but soon we won’t need to. It’s a necessary step in the standardisation process.

  • http://szczotka.net Greg

    Really engaging talk and some really interesting talk!
    Thanks!

  • http://underlabs.ca Joseph

    Can Anyone please explain to me why HTML5 / CSS3 are called “Web Standards” If None of the Browsers have consistent implementations?

    When I see a “fly in effect”, built in HTML5 and the community goes “woooo”… makes me wonder – Really? we built these in Flash 10 years ago.

    • Rafal Borowski

      When I see a fly in effect, built in Flash like 10 years ago it makes me wonder – Really? I can make it without a single flash element :) BTW. Flash is heavy, not seo friendly and… well… I just like HTML/CSS and some jQuery better.

      • http://benmartinstudios.com.au Ben

        +1 Rafal. It’s also extremely difficult to link to specific pages on a full flash site (all pages are in the flash file which is generally on the index page).

        • Rafal Borowski

          Of course we could discuss a long list of disadvantages when talking about flash Ben :) I’m not saying flash is bad. Thare are many advanced and complex effects that you can achieve only with flash but for most of what I do HTML+CSS with some jQuery is just enough – and even better when done without using flash.

      • arnold

        “Flash is heavy, not seo friendly ”

        - what? its 2011 already , there are now ways to make flash more SEO friendly…

        Flash,HTML5 ,CSS3 , this are just tools for me , its how you make good use of this stuff .
        I dont want to start a Flash and HTML5 debate but I think Flash has its own place

    • http://broken-links.com/ Peter Gasston

      They are called web standards because that’s what they’ll be: standardised. At the moment we use prefixes because we’re settling on the best way of doing things. It’s a much more organic process that means we arrive at a solution which works well for everybody, instead of one which is dictated by a third-party and may not meet everyone’s needs. Yes it’s a little messy at the moment, but that’s the price of progress.

  • http://www.paul-ferguson.co.uk Paul

    Nice talk, and friendly easy to follow. Happily reassured with my purchasing of his book yesterdays.

    Very excited about the future of CSS

    • http://broken-links.com/ Peter Gasston

      Thanks Paul – hope you find it useful!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/izvarzone AntoxaGray

    I am most interested in display:box or :grid, it would make positioning of elements possible in CSS, without repositioning them in HTML. Also it would make it 10x times easier than using float property, and countless div wraps.