In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Miriam Suzanne about all things CSS — container queries, layers, scoping, and more!

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Guests

Miriam Suzanne

Show Notes

02:21 - When did you come on board with container queries?

10:27 - How would you declare specificity?

Layer example:

@layer default; @layer theme; @layer components; @import url(theme.css) layer(theme); @layer default { audio[controls] { display: block; } }

13:08 - What is your background?

18:20 - What are container queries?

22:06 - What is the background on contain? How does it work?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/contain

29:25 - Is it still under development?

https://www.igalia.com/open-prioritization/index

33:51 - Have you tried the EQ polyfill from Johnathan Neal yet?

35:21 - How far out are we?

38:10 - What is Scope?

44:00 - How will MQ and CQ work together?

45:49 - Do you use inline and block?

48:44 - What browser do you use?

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