Panel:


AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight


Special Guests: Greg Whitworth

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss the effects of JavaScript on CSS with Greg Whitworth. Greg works on Microsoft EdgeHTML, specifically working on the Microsoft Layout team, is on the CSS working group, and is involved with the Houdini task force. They talk about JS engines and rendering engines, what the CSSOM is, why it is important to understand the rendering engine, and much more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Greg intro
What is the Houdini task force?
Extensible web manifesto
DOM (Document Object Model)
Layout API
Parser API
Babel
jQuery
Back to basics
JavaScript engine and rendering engine
What is the CSSOM?
Every browser has its separate JS engine
Browsers perspective
Aimee ShopTalk Podcast Episode
Why is it important to understand how the rendering engine is working?
Making wise decisions
Give control back to browser if possible
When you would want to use JavaScript or CSS
Hard to make a hard or fast rule
CSS is more performant
Overview of steps
And much, much more!


Links:


Parser API
Babel
jQuery
Aimee ShopTalk Podcast Episode
JavaScript
@gregwhitworth
GWhitworth.com
Greg’s GitHub
 


Sponsors


Kendo UI
Linode
FreshBooks


Picks:

AJ


Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Cursor


Aimee


Greg’s Talk
What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing by Sarah Mei


Greg


Aimee ShopTalk Podcast Episode
Jake Archibald Tasks Talk