# CSS Houdini Task Force and Its Significance for Web Styling

DevFeed: [CSS Houdini Task Force and Its Significance for Web Styling](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/houdini-maybe-the-most-exciting-development-in-css-you-ve-never-heard-of-29503.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://philipwalton.com/articles/houdini-maybe-the-most-exciting-development-in-css-youve-never-heard-of/>)

Published: 2016-03-24T22:43:07Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Philip Walton](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/philip-walton.md>)

Topics: [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [web-standards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-standards.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [standards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/standards.md>), [web-developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-developers.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces the CSS Houdini Task Force, explains its connection to browser rendering engines and the web standards process, and discusses why web developers should care about it.

## Source excerpt

Earlier this year I had the privileged of attending the CSS Houdini Task Force face-to-face meeting in Sydney, Australia. While there I got to meet many of the Houdini members (most of whom work on browser rendering engines), and I got to see a bit of how the standards process works.