Cascading Styles
The contextual vision of CSS leads us to a declarative and modal language. Nested boxes and text nodes flow together onto a canvas – creating a tension between extrinsic context pushing in, and intrinsic content pushing out. How will we manage the space using various layout modes, alignment, and overflow?
CodePen Demos
Resources
- Cascading HTML Style Sheets – a proposal, by Håkon Wium Lie
- Historical Style Sheet Proposals
- Line Mode Browser
- W3C Mission Statement
- WWW Project Documentation
- WWW Browser Emulator
- HTML Constraints
- A Dao of Web Design, by John Allsopp
- www-talk “Re: Adobe’s PDF”, by Roy Smith
- CSS: It was twenty years ago today — an interview with Håkon Wium Lie, by Bruce Lawson
- Request for comments: STYLESHEETS, by Rob Raisch
- Comic Papyrus by Ben Harman
- List of CSS Properties by the CSS Working Group
- Cascading & Inheritance Specification
- User Agent Style Sheets collected by Jens Oliver Meiert
- Cascade Layers polyfill by OddBird