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CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS
I gave a talk this morning at BarCamp London 5 about CSS Systems, a new term that I am using to define a top-down approach to architecting a site's CSS.
A CSS System is a reusable set of content-oriented markup patterns and associated CSS created to express a site's individual design. It is the end result of a process that emphasizes up-front planning, loose coupling between CSS and markup, pre-empting browser bugs and overall robustness. It also incorporates a shared vocabulary for developers to communicate the intent of the code.
The talk elaborates on this concept, and also describes a number of tricks I use to preempt maintainability issues.
You can view just the slides on SlideShare, but as they might not make sense out of context you can download a PDF of the slides with notes for the complete experience.
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Unobtrusive connected select boxes - yet another solution approach - Wait till I come!
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Autocomplete feature of Internet Explorer
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Accessible interdependent dropdowns
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