CSS wants to be a system - daverupert.com

CSS wants you to build a system with it. It wants styles to build up, not flatten down.

Truth!

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A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components.

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Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025 - YouTube

A great talk by Matthias on what you can do with web standards today!

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Polishing your typography with line height units | WebKit

I should be using the lh and rlh units more enough—they’re supported across the board!

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Better typography with text-wrap pretty | WebKit

Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.

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CSS Form Control Styling Level 1

This looks like a really interesting proposal for allowing developers more control over styling inputs. Based on the work being done the customisable select element, it starts with a declaration of appearance: base.

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