On 22/6/2012 Viking Kristof Houben gave a presentation at 'Fronteers' about 'Pre-processing'.
The organization 'Fronteers' wants to professionalize the job of front-end web development. It strives for the recognition and support of Dutch speaking front-end web developers.
'Fronteers' unites about 450 front-end web developers in Belgium and The Netherlands.
Enjoy!
22/6/2012 Fronteers by Kristof Houben
16. "CSS is the weakest link in the web developers
toolbox. The problem goes deeper than CSS’s
lack of variables. Unlike the “function” in
programming, CSS has no fundamental
building block."
26. Client: “We want #000 to be #333 but not
the user information underneath my
#bada55 body text, oh while you're at it
could you position absolute that element and
rotate it a gazillion degrees, …
oh, #333 doesn't look that great after all…
Change it back!”
38. "In computer science, a preprocessor is a
program that processes its input data to
produce output that
is used as input to another program.”
— Wikipedia