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Mattia Larentis - @spiritualguru the evolution of css

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a long time ago...

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1980s

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Nerdz

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CERN

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Share documents

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HTML HyperText Markup Language

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tags!

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paragraphs titles bulleted lists

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1993

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people began to talk about STYLE

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W3C World Wide Web Consortium

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CSS Cascading Style Sheet

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1996

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version 1.0

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from 1998 to 2004

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version 2.0

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new Browsers

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WIN

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TODAY

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version 3.0

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New Features

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Border Radius 2D Transforms Box Shadow RGBA Colors

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but...

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CSS SUCKS

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Problems

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vars

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nesting

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performance

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is there a solution?

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YES!

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preprocessing

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A system written in another language that adds lots of tasty goodies that don’t exists natively, while still spitting out something a browser can understand

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{LESS} The dynamic stylesheet language.

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Sass Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets

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stylus Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS

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ok... but... why?

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it will make you CSS DRY

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it will save your time

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it will make your code easy to maintain

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it will make your CSS more organized

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it’s fun

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talk is cheap, show me the code

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START

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IMPORT

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@import "vars";

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VARS

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@border: 1px; @color: #111; @red: #842210;

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.my-class { color: @color; border-left: @border; border-right: @border; }

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.my-class { color: #111; border-left: 1px; border-right: 1px; }

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OPERATIONS

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.my-class { color: (@color + #030); border-right: (@border * 2); }

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.my-class { color: #114411; border-right: 2px; }

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MIXIN

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.border-radius (@radius: 5px) { -webkit-border-radius: @radius; -moz-border-radius: @radius; -ms-border-radius: @radius; -o-border-radius: @radius; border-radius: @radius; }

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.my-class { .border-radius(2px); } .another-class { .border-radius; }

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.my-class { -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; -ms-border-radius: 2px; -o-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; }

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.another-class { -webkit-border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -ms-border-radius: 5px; -o-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; }

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NESTING

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.my-class { h1 { font-weight: bold; } p { font-size: 12px; a { text-decoration: none; &:hover { color: @red; } } } }

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.my-class h1 { font-weight: bold; } .my-class p { font-size: 12px; } .my-class p a { text-decoration: none; } .my-class p a:hover { color: #842210; }

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Questions?!?

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Mattia Larentis http://larentis.eu [email protected] @spiritualguru github.com/nostalgiaz