The Web Platform Podcast

Summary In episode 50 we talk with CSS master Tab Atkins Jr. (@tabatkins) about the history of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) & how they have evolved into what we use today. We also cover preprocessors, lesser known specs, css as a programming language, and more. Resources Tab Atkin’s personal site - http://www.xanthir.com/ Tab on Github - https://github.com/tabatkins Tab at CSSConf 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad1Wq0qZrMQ History of CSS - http://www.w3.org/Style/LieBos2e/history/Overview.html Houdini - https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts Parse CSS - https://github.com/tabatkins/parse-css CSS Working Group News - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work How to read CSS specifications - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/read Lesser known CSS Specs Ruby - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ruby/ Scoping Module - http://www.w3.org/TR/css-scoping-1/ Speech Module - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/ Writing Modes - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-writing-modes/ Line Grid - http://www.w3.