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CSS Variables

Ben Schwarz at Code 2014
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A head first dive into the past, present and future of all things variable in CSS. Theres waaay more going on than you might first think — Maybe you didn’t know that you can access your variables by JavaScript? Or perhaps you’d just like to know WHY the variables spec ended up where it did? These questions will be answered in this 15 minute power session.

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