713: The CSS OG Eric Meyer. 1994 CSS, JS in Fridges, Tailwind, and Web Standards
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 5 min
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Episode description
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Eric Meyer about his start on the web, the early days of CSS, where CSS is headed, are we going to lose a browser, and more!
Show Notes- 00:32 Welcome
- 01:26 Who is Eric Meyer?
- 05:44 In the earliest days, what browsers supported CSS?
- 10:23 The current web platform test suite
- web-platform-tests
- 17:59 Are CSS features shipping faster these days?
- 20:45 CSS learning from preprocessors
- 26:24 What do you think about Tailwind and inline CSS?
- 33:26 Alternative spaces where CSS may be used
- CSS Speech Module Level 1
- The World Wide Web Consortium Issues CSS2 as a W3C Recommendation
- 37:17 Do companies push CSS forward for a business use case?
- 44:06 Trying to keep up with all the things is difficult
- 48:19 What’s on Eric Meyer’s CSS wishlist?
- 54:35 Supper Club Questions
- Bruce Lawson
- Firefox Nightly desktop, Android and iOS.
- SerenityOS
- The Ladybird browser project
- Thunderbird — Free Your Inbox. — Thunderbird
- Arc from The Browser Company
- Mozilla Foundation - Homepage
- 01:58 Sick Picks
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