Serg Hospodarets: CSS Houdini - from CSS variables to JavaScript and back

CSS Custom Properties are added to all the major browsers and provide the ability to use the CSS native variables power which is a huge step to the future of CSS.
Now is time to do the next one- to have an ability to register the new native CSS Custom properties from JavaScript. They should work with the same performance as the native CSS properties, being animatable and being aligned CSSOM.
CSS Houdini provides a specification for that, which is already available in some browsers and allows to register the new Custom Properties, set the valid values and many other things.
This will mostly solve the problem of polyfilling the new properties and open the way to animate CSS Custom Properties.
All this brings CSS to the next level and is one of the important steps to the bright future with CSS Houdini.