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Enduring CSS

You're reading from   Enduring CSS Create robust and scalable CSS for any size web project

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282803
Length 134 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ben Frain Ben Frain
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Writing Styles for Rapidly Changing, Long-lived Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. The Problems of CSS at Scale 3. Implementing Received Wisdom 4. Introducing the ECSS Methodology 5. File Organisation and Naming Conventions 6. Dealing with State Changes in ECSS 7. Applying ECSS to Your Website or Application 8. The Ten Commandments of Sane Style Sheets 9. Tooling for an ECSS Approach 1. CSS Selector Performance 2. Browser Representatives on CSS Performance

Performance inside the brackets

The final test (https://benfrain.com/selector-test/3-01.html) I ran was to hit the page with a bunch of expensive properties and values. Consider this rule:

.link {
    background-color: red;
    border-radius: 5px;
    padding: 3px;
    box-shadow: 0 5px 5px #000;
    -webkit-transform: rotate(10deg);
    -moz-transform: rotate(10deg);
    -ms-transform: rotate(10deg);
    transform: rotate(10deg);
    display: block;
}

With that rule applied, here are the results:

Test

Chrome 34

Firefox 29

Opera 19

IE 19

Android 4

Expensive Styles

65.2

151.4

65.2

259.2

1923

Here all browsers are at least up with their slowest selector speed (IE was 1.5X slower than its slowest selector test (10) and the Android device was 1.3X slower than the slowest selector test (test 6)) but that's not even the full picture. Try and scroll that page! Repaint on those kind of styles can bring a browser to its knees (or whatever the equivalent of knees...

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