Thereās a well-established ābest practiceā
that CSS authors
(as well as linters and minifiers)
should remove units from any 0
value.
Itās a fine rule in most cases,
but there are a few common situations
where it will break your code.
Thereās a new web API proposal
for transitioning shared-elements across pages.
Itās great for making smooth page transitions,
but what if we apply it to individual elements
with changing styles on a single page?
I was Interviewed by Rachel Andrew
for the web.dev Designcember
(and finally got around to posting a link here)
Cascade layers are a new CSS feature
that allows us to define
explicit contained layers of specificity.
Miriam talks to Now What?
about why the internet looks the way it does,
why designers and developers need to collaborate
and how the future of the web
must be built around inclusivity and respect.
We discuss the role of the ādesign engineerā
and what it means for workflows,
collab with their product team,
and the end-user experience.
A podcast focusing on front end development
but also covering a wide range of web development and design topics.
We talked about CSS, Sass,
and work being done in the W3C CSS Working Group.
Igaliaās Brian Kardell
sits down to chat with Miriam and Rachel Andrew
about who works on standards,
and who pays for that work.
In this episode of Syntax,
Scott and Wes talk with Miriam
about all things CSS ā
container queries, layers, scoping, and more!
I talk with Claire and Steph
about my journey into webdev and onto the CSSWG,
what I find frustrating about how others use CSS,
and the three specs Iām working on.
Working on a new CSS feature like Container Queries,
one of the most important considerations is
to ensure a āmigration pathā ā
a way for developers to start integrating the new code,
without breaking their sites on legacy browsers.
I chat with Bruce Lawson & Vadim Makeev
about Sass & Susy,
CSS Layers & compatibility,
Container Queries,
and the CSS Working Group.
Starting a new season of the Smashing Podcast
with a look at the future of CSS.
What new specs will be landing in browsers soon?
Drew McLellan talks to Miriam to find out.
āWhat is one thing you learned about building websites this year?ā
I join Ari, Ben, and Tessa to talk about
getting into CSS from other languages,
the absurdly massive problem CSS is designed to solve,
and the mental model behind the language.
Learn how design engineering
brings together form and function.
CSS Custom Properties allow
us to manage and control both cascade and inheritance in new ways.
Jina and I answer questions about CSS, Sass, Design Systems, and more!
A spinoff of the Party Corgi Network discord.
I chat with Chris Biscardi about
The CSS Working Group,
open-source projects,
art, and music.
āWhat about building websites has you interested this year?ā
Firefox 69 was the first to implement selector feature queries,
but other browsers are following suit.
Iāll show you how it works,
and how to start using this new feature query right away.
Horizontal text overflow has always been difficult to manage on the web.
The default visible overflow
is designed to make sure content remains accessible
no matter the size of a containing box,
but itās not our only option.
When weāre scrolling down a page,
or through a gallery of images,
snap-targets can help guide us from one section or image to the next.
In the past, developers have used JavaScript to hijack scrolling,
but now we can manage scroll alignment directly in CSS
with only a few lines of code.
I drop by the show to talk about Sass in 2019,
design tokens, Oddbird, unused CSS, new CSS properties,
and Dave & Chrisā explanation of revert.
The display
property has been in CSS from the beginning,
handling everything from block
and inline
boxes
to list-items
and full layout systems like flexbox
or grid
.
Now the display
syntax is getting an upgrade
to match itās multiple uses.
There are a number of property & value combinations
that can lead to CSS being inactive,
and now Firefox will tell you why.
Open the developer tools,
and look for the greyed-out property with an info-box on hover.
Itās a common pattern to align form labels and inputs in grid-like layout.
Iāll show you how to do it quickly using CSS subgrid,
with several quick fallbacks.
Card layouts are popular on the web,
rows and columns of boxes with similar content.
CSS grids can help align those cards,
but itās still be hard to line-up content inside the cards ā
headers and footers that might need more or less room.
For years,
weāve struggled to build resilient layouts on the web,
but CSS Grid promises to change all that ā
and you can start using it now,
with only a few properties and basic concepts.
Iāve often used initial
and unset
in my CSS ā
global keywords that can be applied to any property.
The difference is small, but important:
unset
allows inheritance,
while initial
does not.
But then Firefox implemented revert
and I was confused ā
how is this one different from the others?!
Sass recently launched a new module system.
The new syntax will replace @import
with
@use
and @forward
ā
a big step forward for making Sass partials
more readable, performant, and safe.
Love it or hate it, CSS is weird:
not quite markup,
not quite programming in the imperative sense,
and nothing like the design programs we use for print.
How did we get here?
When you create lists in HTML,
browsers add bullet-points or numbers we call list markers.
Now CSS gives us the tools to style those list markers,
and even create our own!
We start by talking about
design systems and design tooling ā
how they differ,
and the problems they solve.
Pushing past the āvariableā metaphor,
CSS Custom Properties can provide new ways
to balance context and isolation
in our patterns and components.
Steve Jenkins interviews me
about the state of CSS,
and whatās coming next for the language ā
from Intrinsic Design
to Dynamic CSS.
Thunder Nerds interview me
before her talk at VueConf US 2019.
The panel and the guest talk about grid systems,
fonts, and more!
On Episode 18,
the TalkScript team continues the live-ish at JSConfUS podcast series
with guests Myles Borins, Tim Doherty, and Miriam Suzanne. Listen in!
āI donāt have many guy friends, but my guitarist is one.
Parting, I lean in for the cheek-kiss
but he plants a good one right on my lips.ā
Inspired by Robin Rendle,
I demonstrate some of my early experiments
combining CSS Grids and custom properties
to create dynamic layouts and data-visualizations.
āIāve seen myself in the mirror.
I find me⦠disorienting.
What do they see that I donāt?
Why arenāt they laughing at me?ā
āMother finds me at her wardrobe, in her pumps and pearls.
What are you doing?
Being a mommy.
Are you, then?
She clips on the earrings (they pinch!),
reaches for her lipstick.ā
A reflection on the nature and value of productivity for the
SuperYesMore series: The Human in the Machine.
Viewport units have been around for several years now,
with near-perfect support in the major browsers,
but I keep finding new and exciting ways to use them.
I thought it would be fun to review the basics,
and then round-up some of my favorite use-cases.
It feels like CSS Grid has been coming for a long time now,
but it just now seems to be reaching a point
where folks are talking more and more about it
and that itās becoming something we should learning.
No matter what acronym drives your selectors
(BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ETC),
loops can help keep your patterns more readable and maintainable,
baking them directly into your code.
Weāll take a look at what loops can do,
and how to use them in the major CSS preprocessors.
Miriam Suzanne creates experimental experiences
with her band and her fellow developers.
Chris Coyier interviews Miriam
when she joins the CSS Tricks team
as a Staff Writer.
We talk about gettting started in the industry,
name confusion,
fouding OddBird,
building Susy,
and more.
In this episode of the Versioning Show,
Tim and David are joined by Miriam Suzanne,
best known for Susy, a responsive layout toolkit for Sass.
They discuss going from being a lurker to finding your voice,
the importance of writing about what youāre learning,
stumbling into fame, approaching new projects, and unit testing in Sass.
An interview with the insightful
Ryo Yamaguchi
at Michigan Quarterly Review.
Collaboration doesnāt have to be a social activity.
Successful collaboration is knowing when to bring people together
and when to send them home with individual assignments.