Yikes. I've been earning 6 figures as of about two years ago doing mostly HTML and CSS UI design for a bank. And I still did not know about many of these! I guess they are things I wish I'd known about CSS! Better late than never I guess.
Things I wish I’d known about CSS
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#32This is great! I've been hacking away at CSS for years and learned heaps from this. Also, reminded me to look up the differences between `rem` and `em`, which I've been meaning to do for ages!
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#33Useful article. Getting started with CSS must be harder these days than it was 15-20 years ago. Not only for mobile-friendliness, but also because of the coexistence of flexbox/grid/traditional layouts. I'm wondering if the standard will ever been simplified, instead of being added more and more features.
CSS and HTML are constantly evolving, and so its demands. However for me CSS is way more straight-forward than in the 90th and 00th.
The standards addressed a lot of the pains and struggles we had with floats/clearfix etc. This was challenging but nothing im comparison to supporting IE 6-9, FF, Safari, Opra etc. at the time. Also hacking in JavaScript added to the complexity.
Nowadays I can do with 10 lines of grid and flex what great CSS frameworks like Bootstrap abstracted away behind 1000th of lines of code.
Also testing is way easier, since browser vendors follow standards and there is chromium everywhere.
Earlier we did a lot of div soup, I remember fondly CSS zen garden as well as OneDiv.
Awesome times to be a web dev, you work on products (PWAs!) not on browser hacks.
My 2 cents.
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#34Anybody knows a good book on CSS for ppl with a solid programming background? Every couple of years I try something and fail. Somehow the tutorial rave about the cascading on and on, and when it comes how to strategically design a good SAP working on different devices the stuff gets mute quickly.
Not a book but https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS is my go-to for all things CSS, I love mdn it's a fabulous resource. Also zeal (dash on Mac which is paid or you can build zeal yourself like I did) has docsets for CSS which are good.
https://caniuse.com/ is also invaluable to check whether the cool CSS feature is actually supported. it's very much today's quirksmode.com.
Once upon a time I would have recommended Eric Meyer's CSS Definitive Guide without hesitation (I think I still have my 1st Edition copy) and it looks like he's re-released with updates for flexboxes and grids.
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#35Specificity and cascade.
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#36Yikes. I've been earning 6 figures as of about two years ago doing mostly HTML and CSS UI design for a bank. And I still did not know about many of these! I guess they are things I wish I'd known about CSS! Better late than never I guess.
Six figures? In the US?
Sometimes I wonder why companies even pay developers so much in the US. I'm a specialised medical embedded software developer in the UK and I'm not even halfway to six figures, and will likely never hit it.
It astounds me that companies don't hire twice as many non-US developers for the same price and get more work for their money. Note, I'm not talking about outsourcing to the absolute cheapest bottom of the barrel developers who cost 1/20 of the price and the quality reflects the price. Just equally skilled developers in non-US countries.
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#37Yikes. I've been earning 6 figures as of about two years ago doing mostly HTML and CSS UI design for a bank. And I still did not know about many of these! I guess they are things I wish I'd known about CSS! Better late than never I guess.
Six figures? In the US? Sometimes I wonder why companies even pay developers so much in the US. I'm a specialised medical embedded software developer in the UK and I'm not even halfway to six figures, and will likely never hit it. It astounds me that companies don't hire twice as many non-US developers for the same price and get more work for their money. Note, I'm not talking about outsourcing to the absolute cheape…
That is going to happen. Big corporations are finally waking up to 1st class remote work, and that’s the gateway to lower US wages. I say this as a remote worker, and a huge fan of remote work. But I do think the high US salaries are going to mean revert a bit.
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#38Apart from the course promoted (which sounds really good!), does anybody know a really good book that already presents this kind of material about CSS use in a similar "logical" way and is not being written the style "margin defines the margin" (how insightful)?
I'm also searching for the material that is specifically oriented on:
- depending on the features existing in all browsers since the last 3-4 years, also mentioning how to make the features "usable" with the older vendor prefixes, but not depending on the JavaScript "fixes" for older browsers, and then showing the examples with minimal number of lines.
- demonstrating all the functionality that can be achieved with CSS only, no JavaScript
- addressing the real-life problems encountered during the design of the modern looking pages, and the goal to use all the power of the commonly available CSS features.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Six figures? In the US? Sometimes I wonder why companies even pay developers so much in the US. I'm a specialised medical embedded software developer in the UK and I'm not even halfway to six figures, and will likely never hit it. It astounds me that companies don't hire twice as many non-US developers for the same price and get more work for their money. Note, I'm not talking about outsourcing to the absolute cheape…
That is going to happen. Big corporations are finally waking up to 1st class remote work, and that’s the gateway to lower US wages. I say this as a remote worker, and a huge fan of remote work. But I do think the high US salaries are going to mean revert a bit.
Sounds to me like tech workers in the US should join a union, and quick!
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#40Yikes. I've been earning 6 figures as of about two years ago doing mostly HTML and CSS UI design for a bank. And I still did not know about many of these! I guess they are things I wish I'd known about CSS! Better late than never I guess.
Six figures? In the US? Sometimes I wonder why companies even pay developers so much in the US. I'm a specialised medical embedded software developer in the UK and I'm not even halfway to six figures, and will likely never hit it. It astounds me that companies don't hire twice as many non-US developers for the same price and get more work for their money. Note, I'm not talking about outsourcing to the absolute cheape…
The US salaries in IT are huge, but you need to take into account that they have to pay a lot to have a quality of life comparable to what a minimum wage worker is getting in west Europe.
If you have a few kids, I would bet you are not that bad in UK with one fewer digit.