In Episode No. 79 of The Big Web Show ("everything web that matters"), host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews CSS guru, Microformats co-founder, O’Reilly and New Riders author, and An Event Apart co-founder Eric A. Meyer (@meyerweb) about upcoming CSS modules in
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5by5 | The Big Web Show #79: Eric A. Meyer
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5by5 | Build and Analyze #102: My Quotes Are Curly And My Dashes Are Solid
5by5 - Build and Analyze #102: My Quotes Are Curly And My Dashes Are Solid
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5by5 | Build and Analyze #101: Looting Siracusa County
5by5 - Build and Analyze #101: Looting Siracusa County
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5by5 | The Web Ahead #40: Git with John Albin Wilkins
5by5 - The Web Ahead #40: Git with John Albin Wilkins
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5by5 | Build and Analyze #96: Sandwich With A Slot
5by5 - Build and Analyze #96: Sandwich With A Slot
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5by5 | 5by5 Specials #8: The iPhone 5
5by5 - 5by5 Specials #8: The iPhone 5
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5by5 | 5by5 Specials #7: Dan Benjamin Guests on Episode #111 of The Bro Show
5by5 - 5by5 Specials #7: Dan Benjamin Guests on Episode #111 of The Bro Show
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5by5 | Build and Analyze #89: Giant Mushy Boat
5by5 - Build and Analyze #89: Giant Mushy Boat
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CSS for Grown Ups: Maturing Best Practices
In the early days of CSS the web industry cut its teeth on blogs and small personal sites. Much of the methodology still considered best-practise today originated from the experiences of developers working alone, often on a single small style sheet, with few of the constraints that come from working with large distributed teams on large continually changing web projects.
The mechanics of CSS are relatively simple. But creating large maintainable systems with it is still an unsolved problem. For larger sites, CSS is a difficult and complex component of the codebase to manage and maintain. It’s difficult to document patterns, and it’s difficult for developers unfamiliar with the code to contribute safely.
How can we do better? What are the CSS best practises that are letting us down and that we must shake off? How can we take a more precise, structured, engineering-driven approach to writing CSS to keep it bug-free, performant, and most importantly, maintainable?
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Excessive Enhancement: JavaScript’s Dark Side
Are we being seduced by the animation and rich UI capabilities of modern browsers at the expense of the underlying platform of the Web?
The Web has entered a new phase in its evolution: The proliferation of a JavaScript enabled audience with increased processing grunt in their devices, better and more ambitious JavaScript developers, and users with an appetite for sophisticated experiences, all seem to be helping to move the web in a rich and exciting direction.
Good developers understand about graceful degradation, progressive enhancement, unobtrusive JavaScript and the like, so why are we seeing big companies building web offerings with little apparent thought for their impact on the Web?
We’ll explore this by looking at what the Web was, is now, and might become. We’ll look at examples of exciting user interfaces and sophisticated interactions. We’ll also examine some emerging techniques for providing rich user interactions without hurting the web or killing kittens.
Phil Hawksworth, Technical Director, R/GA
Phil began his career building web applications for financial institutions such as Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, and the London Stock Exchange in the late nineties. A focus on web architectures and real-time data delivery lead Phil to a variety of web development roles with particular attention to emerging front-end development techniques and JavaScript application development.
After several years working on web applications and consulting on web best practices at technology companies such as Verisign, VMware and BT, Phil made the move into the agency world where he managed development teams and architected solutions on projects for clients including of eBay, Sony and BP.
Phil Hawksworth is a Technical Director at R/GA and enjoys talking about himself in the third person.
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