671: Naming Consistency, HTML Includes, and Mixins
Chris reflects on CSS Day in Amsterdam, allowing languages to grow with nonstandard elements, naming things continues to be hard, shapes are going to get weird on the web, HTML includes get stirred up, thoughts on CSS mixins, and Dave's blogging about resizing text fun.
Time Jump Links
- 00:21 Buzzcuts all the way down
- 02:32 CSS Day 2025
- 05:40 Allowing languages to grow with nonstandard elements
- 14:02 Trying to be consistent with what things are called
- 17:41 Shapes are going to get weird on the web
- 20:04 HTML Include pot stirred
- 29:28 CSS Mixins
- 31:30 This episode brought to you by Dave's dog's bowels
- 31:50 Back to native mixins
- 41:17 Are Functions the end game for CSS?
- 48:18 RIP Houdini
- 50:15 Resizing text
Links
- Understanding CSS corner-shape and the Power of the Superellipse – Frontend Masters Blog
- CSS Functions and Mixins Module
- explainers/declarative-partial-document-updates.md at main · noamr/explainers · GitHub
- Houdini APIs - Web APIs | MDN
- Inverse text-sizing based on text-length with attr() - daverupert.com
- Fit-to-Width Text: A New Technique
- inverse text-sizing with attr - bigtext.js style - contenteditable dealio
- ShopTalk Show | creating Podcasts about building websites | Patreon