Writing CSS Algorithms
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Writing CSS Algorithms
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Re: Writing CSS Algorithms
#2I was expecting something along the lines of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734966 or
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836, or a discussion on how to implement CSS in a browser, but this article seems to be really more about "algorithms for writing CSS".
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#3Whats a good place to learn CSS for someone with programming experience?
I've been in my low-level C++ world for a long time and am pretty out of touch with GUI/Web things. I was writing some JavaFX code and saw it can be extended with CSS, but I don't know where to start. I'd also like to tweak the CSS on my webpage, but also don't know what's what. What I've found online is targeted towards people starting out coding with Javascript so it's very slow and hands on and doesn't step back and explain the big picture
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#4Whats a good place to learn CSS for someone with programming experience? I've been in my low-level C++ world for a long time and am pretty out of touch with GUI/Web things. I was writing some JavaFX code and saw it can be extended with CSS, but I don't know where to start. I'd also like to tweak the CSS on my webpage, but also don't know what's what. What I've found online is targeted towards people starting out codi…
Eric Meyer’s CSS books for O’Reilly are unsurprisingly exhaustive. For incremental, hands-on work, try using Codepen to slowly work your way through bounded use cases (e.g., set up a pen and just work on styling buttons, or flex layout, or transforms); Codepen also lets you use preprocessors like SASS and LESS inline, so it’s a great way to get used to the various quirks of CSS and its toolchains without having to set up entire projects.
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#5How about... _not_ writing CSS algorithms?
I'm mostly joking, this is neat.
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#6Algorithm? I see a design process but using the word algorithm to describe a CSS layout is a bit baffling to me. It's like creating a library of json snippets and calling it a json algorithm.
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#7Algorithm? I see a design process but using the word algorithm to describe a CSS layout is a bit baffling to me. It's like creating a library of json snippets and calling it a json algorithm.
Should have seen it coming after “object oriented CSS”, “functional CSS” and “immutable CSS”, none of which has anything to do with OOP or FP.
What’s next? CSS data structures?
Re: Writing CSS Algorithms
#8“Make CSS interesting/here’s a methodology blah blah”.... Sets up SCSS.
Can we just agree that current CSS is a mistake and bring more of SCSS into it?
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#9Whats a good place to learn CSS for someone with programming experience? I've been in my low-level C++ world for a long time and am pretty out of touch with GUI/Web things. I was writing some JavaFX code and saw it can be extended with CSS, but I don't know where to start. I'd also like to tweak the CSS on my webpage, but also don't know what's what. What I've found online is targeted towards people starting out codi…
+1 to HillRat's answer (especially hacking around in Codepen). On top of his, I want to plug the Mozilla Web Docs [0]. They're absolutely wonderful to reference for all your CSS needs, especially if you learn well from reading the docs. On top of that, they have excellent tutorials as well. I would consider checking out their one on CSS [1], you might find it easier to get through than an O'Reilly book.
A little unrelated but as someone who also loves their C++ and low-level programming I really enjoyed Lin Clark's articles on Firefox's Stylo [2] and WebRender [3], I think they do a great job of intuitively explaining the back-end behind CSS rendering, if that's of any interest to you.
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS
[2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...
[3] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...
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#10“Make CSS interesting/here’s a methodology blah blah”.... Sets up SCSS. Can we just agree that current CSS is a mistake and bring more of SCSS into it?
“New ideas will come along, but they will extend CSS rather than replace it. I believe that the CSS code we write today will be readable by computers 500 years from now.” — Håkon Wium Lie, co-creator of CSS.