713: The CSS OG Eric Meyer. 1994 CSS, JS in Fridges, Tailwind, and Web Standards

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Eric Meyer about his start on the web, the early days of CSS, where CSS is headed, are we going to lose a browser, and more! Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:26 Who is Eric Meyer? 05:44 In the earliest days, what browsers supported CSS? 10:23 The current web platform test suite web-platform-tests 17:59 Are CSS features shipping faster these days? 20:45 CSS learning from preprocessors 26:24 What do you think about Tailwind and inline CSS? 33:26 Alternative spaces where CSS may be used CSS Speech Module Level 1 The World Wide Web Consortium Issues CSS2 as a W3C Recommendation 37:17 Do companies push CSS forward for a business use case? 44:06 Trying to keep up with all the things is difficult 48:19 What’s on Eric Meyer’s CSS wishlist? 54:35 Supper Club Questions Bruce Lawson Firefox Nightly desktop, Android and iOS. SerenityOS The Ladybird browser project Thunderbird — Free Your Inbox. — Thunderbird Arc from The Browser Company Mozilla Foundation - Homepage 01:58 Sick Picks Sick Picks Polypane Shameless Plugs Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development meyerweb.com Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

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0:00.0	I sure hope you're hungry.
0:02.0	Who I'm starving?
0:04.0	Wash those hands, pull up a chair and secure that feed bag.
0:08.0	Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and West Boss attempt to use human language to converse with and picked the brains of other developers.
0:16.8	I thought there was going to be food.
0:18.8	So buckle up and grab that old shit handle because this ride is going to get wild.
0:25.0	This is the Syntax Supper Club.
0:30.0	Welcome to Syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:38.0	Today we have a guest on which I am very amazed that we get to have on. We have Eric Meyer on who is
0:47.2	extremely prominent figure in CSS world. He's been responsible for a lot of the stuff that has come to CSS over the many decades and
0:56.1	is the author of many books I'm pretty sure you wrote the original CSS one
1:01.6	what testing spec what was that called?
1:04.9	Yeah, the CSS one test suite.
1:07.2	Like the browsers would point towards that
1:10.3	to make sure they have implemented CSS correct?
1:12.6	Yeah, that was the idea anyway.
1:13.9	Yeah, unreal.
1:14.9	So I'm sure I'm missing a lot of the stuff out here,
1:18.6	but I'm sure most people already know who Eric Meyer is.
1:22.3	Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for coming on. Yeah,
1:24.3	thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Yeah. So why don't you give the
1:29.2	audience a quick rundown of who you are, what you do,
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