Coven of Wisdom - EHV - CSS Edition

Grab your web scuba gear, ’cause none other than Brecht de Ruyte and Hidde de Vries will take us down to the depths of CSS & HTML.

Brecht, who you might know from his articles on Smashing Magazine, CSS-tricks and utilitybend.com, will inspire you to use custom properties more often.

They have been available to us for a while now, but don’t get used as much as they should. Custom properties are more than just a constant; they are flexible and smart. We’ll be styling 4 buttons with less than 20 lines of code, learning to take more control of a grid by using smart variables, and adding some JavaScript trickery as a finishing touch.

After Brecht has taught us how to optimise our design systems using custom properties, Hidde will take our hand and lead us further on our design system journey, on a deep dive into popovers and how to build them.

Hidde is a freelance front-end and accessibility specialist working in the Dutch government’s NL Design System team. He is also involved in the W3C’s Open UI Community Group and CSS Working Group.

Have you already experienced that our design systems commonly feature components that show on top of other content: tooltips, date pickers, menus and teaching UI, to name just a few? There are many ways to build them, and new features in the web platform are about to make this a whole lot easier. You might not even need JavaScript. In this talk, you’ll learn all about dialogs, including the new ‘popover’ attribute, “modality”, and using the top layer.

We couldn’t be more stoked to host a gathering with these 2 Web Wizards!

Join us, won't you?

We’ll provide the drinks ’n bites, and we hope you’ll come and have great conversations.

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Program

• 6pm: Welcome
• 6:30pm: Pizza
• 7pm: Brecht – So, you're still not using custom properties?
• 7:45pm: Break
• 8pm: Hidde – Dialog dilemmas and modal mischief: a deep dive into popovers and how to build them
• 8:30pm: Networking and drinks
• 9pm: Closing time

Reachability
Location

• iO Eindhoven, Marconilaan 16, 5621 AA Eindhoven

Public transport

• Station Eindhoven Strijp-S, 5-minute walk
• Station Eindhoven Centraal, 25-minute walk

Car

• Parking behind the building. Entry via Edisonstraat
• Enough free parking possibilities in the neighbourhood.

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