Houdini: Demystifying the Future of CSS - Google I/O 2016
The Surma and Houdini: Demystifying the Future of CSS
The engine that drives CSS is mostly working in the background, consuming the stylesheets we write. Houdini is a collaboration between browser vendors to specify and implement new JavaScript APIs that expose these internals of the engine to developers.
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