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CSS Container Queries, Layers, Scoping and More with Miriam Suzanne
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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Miriam Suzanne about all things CSS — container queries, layers, scoping, and more!
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Guests Miriam Suzanne
Show Notes 02:21 - When did you come on board with container queries?
10:27 - How would you declare specificity?
Layer example:
@layer default; @layer theme; @layer components; @import url(theme.css) layer(theme); @layer default { audio[controls] { display: block; } } 13:08 - What is your background?
18:20 - What are container queries?
22:06 - What is the background on contain? How does it work?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/contain
29:25 - Is it still under development?
https://www.igalia.com/open-prioritization/index
33:51 - Have you tried the EQ polyfill from Johnathan Neal yet?
35:21 - How far out are we?
38:10 - What is Scope?
44:00 - How will MQ and CQ work together?
45:49 - Do you use inline and block?
48:44 - What browser do you use?
Links OddBird
Susy
Jonathan Neal
FireFox
Codepen
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts
https://twitter.com/TerribleMia
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