November 11, 2022

A very !important lesson

1 hour 31 minutes

Estelle Weyl has been building the web since 1999 and documenting it since 2007. Today she joins Amal for a loooong and deeeep conversation about new and !important features of CSS & HTML. Sit down, strap in, and prepare to be schooled!

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Featuring:

Estelle Weyl – GitHub, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

web platform tests

test262 report

Estelle’s CSS slides

Google’s web.dev site

Open Web Docs

MDN: Cascade

MDN: Cascade Layers

MDN: Specificity

MDN: important

Merry-Go-Round

Specificity with Fish

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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