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Upcoming events

(TBD) Kick off meeting

Please attend if you can! Scheduling Doodle here.

On the agenda:

• picking a group chair (or chairs)
• picking a primary editor

(2018-02-20) @ZeeCoder talk at React London

Viktor is working on and soliciting feedback on this talk here.

(2018-06-15) Greg Whitworth talk on “container queries” at CSS Day

Articles

In Container Queries: Once More Unto the Breach, Mat Marquis outlines the need for container queries and presents a use-case for the self-contained / self-adapting ‘modules’.

Container Query Discussion Chris Coyer also summarises several related articles on container queries, including a piece by Ethan Marcotte - On container queries.

Ethan also responded to Paul Robert Lloyd’s Questioning Container Queries.

The Current State of Element Queries, by Dennis Gaebel, does a great job of summing up how thinking on this issue has evolved the years.

Use-cases and stop-gaps

Tommy Hodgins presents a huge range of possible use cases for his EQCSS project and lays out examples of what may need to be queried including numbers of child elements and scroll positions.

Michael Scharnagl presents further Use cases for container queries including modular components, 3rd-party widgets and responsive images.

Andy Kirk presents some techniques for working around the lack of container queries including use of the Fab Four technique.