Sessions at Web Directions South 2011 about CSS3 in Development Track

Thursday 13th October 2011

• CSS3 and Backbone.js for killer mobile apps

  by Julio Cesar Ody

  Learn how to build great looking and high performance mobile web applications leveraging CSS3 animations and Backbone.js, along with some cool use cases for geolocation and localStorage.

  This session will describe in length a boilerplate you can use for developing your own apps aimed at A grade mobile devices and tablets.

  • Backbone.js
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • Mobile

  At 2:40pm to 3:30pm, Thursday 13th October

  In Development Track, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre

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Friday 14th October 2011

• CSS Power Tools

  by Nicole Sullivan

  Let’s admit it, the tools for writing CSS aren’t very advanced. For the most part, the people who write tools don’t know about CSS and the people who know about CSS don’t write tools. Quite a conundrum! In this session, you’ll learn about good tools that can make development faster and maintenance easier. We’ll also talk a bit about where we can go from here. What tools do we need as sites are becoming more and more complex? We need to get beyond tools whose primary goal is to avoid hand-coding and realize that, as our techniques for writing CSS become more powerful, our tools can too! Session will include:

  • Validators
  • Preprocessors
  • Finding dead rules
  • Linting
  • CSS3 gradient tools
  • Performance measurement tools
  • Unit testing
  • CSS
  • CSS3

  At 1:45pm to 2:35pm, Friday 14th October

  In Development Track, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre