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Poetic CSS

This is the dashboard view.

  1. Poetic CSS Mindset
    1. What is Poetic CSS?
    2. Web on Everything
    3. The Program Runs Without Us
    4. Constraints In Context
    5. The Order of Operations
  2. Cascading Priorities
    1. Last rule wins
    2. Where styles come from
    3. Meaningful selectors
    4. Specificity is a fallback
    5. Narrowing the scope
    6. Building in layers
    7. Importance is defensive
  3. Applying styles
    1. Parsing & filtering
    2. Computed & used values
    3. Inheritance tax
    4. Explicit defaults
    5. Invalid at computed value time
  4. Resilient design
    1. Browser support
    2. Progressive enhancement
    3. No fallback needed
    4. Silent fallbacks
    5. Support queries
    6. Polyfills
  5. Naming & Organizing
    1. Fundamental concerns
    2. Modern variants
    3. Processors and tools
    4. CSS in JS
    5. Utility classes
    6. Poetic CSS