Speaking at CSS Day 2022

I���m very excited about speaking at CSS Day this year. My talk is called In And Out Of Style:

It���s an exciting time for CSS! It feels like new features are being added every day. And yet, through it all, CSS has managed to remain an accessible language for anyone making websites. Is this an inevitable part of the design of CSS? Or has CSS been formed by chance? Let���s take a look at the history���and some alternative histories���of the World Wide Web to better understand where we are today. And then, let���s cast our gaze to the future!

Technically, CSS Day won���t be the first outing for this talk but it will be the in-person debut. I had the chance to give the talk online last week at An Event Apart. Giving a talk online isn���t quite the same as speaking on stage, but I got enough feedback from the attendees that I���m feeling confident about giving the talk in Amsterdam. It went down well with the audience at An Event Apart.

If the description has you intrigued, come along to CSS Day to hear the talk in person. And if you like the subject matter, I���ve put together these links to go with the talk…

A Mind at Play: The Brilliant Life of Claude Shannon, Inventor of the Information Age by Jimmy Sonni and Rob GoodmanThe Web Is Agreement by Paul DowneyCERN 2019 WorldWideWeb RebuildWhat is a good standard? An essay on W3C’s design principles by Bert BosDesign PrinciplesTweet by Miriam SuzanneOpen UIBlog postsThe Languages Which Almost Became CSS by Zack BloomA Look Back at the History of��CSS by Jay HoffmannPresentationsOn the origin of cascades by Hidde de VriesCSS Reset by Bert Bos and H��kon Wium LieProposals (email)Request for Comments: STYLESHEETS by Rob Raisch, June 1993Stylesheet Language by Pei Wei, October 1993Cascading HTML style sheets — a proposal by H��kon Wium Lie, October 1994Papers (PDF)A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon, 1948Cascading Style Sheets by H��kon Wium Lie, 2006People (Wikipedia)Claude ShannonGrace HopperTim Berners-Lee