Velocity 2010: Nicole Sullivan, "The Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS"

Nicole Sullivan (Consultant),
Stoyan Stefanov (Yahoo! Inc.),
"The Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS"

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[Jonathon VS]

I know she's a consultant to the big guns, but she's focusing on the Alexa Top 100, which are sites that already have millions of customers. Reducing the number of headlines, as she suggested, is a detriment to SEO and accessibility, and is not worth the smaller CSS files, in my opinion. Also, I'm surprised she didn't mention child selectors (">"), which shorten DOM crawls and increase performance considerably. I think it'd be more helpful if she recommended what to do instead of what not to.

[spacequadrant]

Cheers love great talk

[Rick Beacham]

Good to see a women presenting in Web Development. There are so many men. Thanks for the info.

[Demoras]

The information was pretty interesting. The presentation however was quite terrible. Now, I understand that presenting probably isn't her field of expertise, but if you're going to present you should at least prepare properly. It's a shame, because the info is pretty good.

[David Muro II]

Love this talk. Love how good typography and consistent type hierarchy produce lean CSS.

[gnatinator]

The presentation starts at 5:45. Great work btw.

[blehblah22]

Are there any examples of this modular approach? There aren't many examples of OO CSS around and the ones that are available suck. Preferably before and after examples would be perfect.

The problem I see with this approach is having to edit the html to include class names where I can simply target elements by their tag name.