E28 | A Conversation about Advanced CSS | Mark Ryba

In this episode we continue our conversation (started in Episode 27) all about advanced CSS techniques with my guest Mark Ryba, a senior developer at SmartBug Media with over 6 years of front end development experience in the marketing space.

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Questions Asked

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• How does CSS work with Javascript?
  
• What are style components?
  
• Does CSS support variables or conditional statements?
  
• What is a CSS pre-processor?
  
• Do you need to compile CSS created with a pre-processor?
  
• What are CSS post-processor?
  
• Do you normally use CSS pre and. post processors?
  
• What does BEM mean and do?
  
• What is the CSS box model?
  
• How are units handled in CSS?
  
• Tell us about the position element.
  
• Explain CSS selectors.
  
• What are class selectors?
  
• What are ID selectors?
  
• What are CSS properties?
  
• What are contextual selectors?
  
• What are CSS sprites?
  
• What are pseudo elements?
  
• What are mixins?
  
• What are vendor prefixes?
  
• Should a developer use CSS animation or JS animation?
  
• How do you delcare element states in CSS?
  
• How do we optimize CSS performance?
  

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Reference Links

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• Mark on Twitter (https://twitter.com/markryba2nd)
  
• Mark on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-ryba/)
  
• SmartBug Media (https://www.smartbugmedia.com/)