Hints & Suggestions
CSS is fundamentally different from other languages or design tools, built around a radical vision for contextual style and user-control. We’ll dig into the practical implications of that vision, and how the ‘grain’ of the language can guide us to more performant and resilient styles.

CodePen Demos
Resources
- Håkon Lie, Cascading HTML style sheets – a proposal (Oct 1994)
- Historical style sheet proposals
- WorldWideWeb Browser/Editor
- Nicola Pellow, Line Mode Browser
- Tim Berners-Lee, HTML Design Constraints
- W3C, Design Principles
- World Wide Web Project
- WorldWideWeb30.com
- Nicola Pellow, Line Mode Browser
- John Allsopp, A Dao of Web Design
- Roy Smith, www-talk “Re: Adobe’s PDF”
- Håkon Lie, 2014 interview
- Imagine CSS without Inheritance
- Robert Raisch, “Request for comments: STYLESHEETS”
- Jon Bosak, Proposal for a language optimized for WWW delivery
- W3C, Platform Design Principles
- Technology Connections, Algorithms are breaking how we think
- W3C, Platform Design Principles