Issue #127

September 8, 2014

Naming CSS Stuff Is Really Hard

Ethan Muller

Ethan Muller explores different CSS naming options to help cushion the blow of future design changes.

Used and Abused – CSS Inheritance and Our Misuse of the Cascade

Micah Godbolt

Micah Godbolt explores how traditional object oriented principles can help you identify problems in CSS inheritance model and find solutions.

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Articles & Tutorials

The Pursuit of 60fps Everywhere

Nat Duca

In this talk Nat Duca shares what Chrome team is doing to make always-60fps, jank free mobile web a reality.

Building a Logger Mixin in Sass

Kitty Giraudel

Kitty Giraudel shows how to build a “logger” mixin, which outputs a flexible, informative log as CSS when Sass is compiled.

Buffer’s CSS

Brian Lovin

Brian Lovin takes a closer look at how his team at Buffer approaches CSS.

Centering in CSS: A Complete Guide

Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier shows different ways to center things in CSS.

Animating Without jQuery

Julian Shapiro

Julian Shapiro explains why CSS-based animations aren’t always the best tool-of-choice for animations.

Tools

CSS Shapes Editor

CSS Shapes Editor is a Chrome DevTools extension which provides an interactive editor for shape property values like circle(), ellipse() and polygon().