Re:Can we stop bad-mouthing CSS in developer talks, please?
by Veen on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:12AM
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Yeah, it's hacks built on top of hacks, and even with all its complexity, it still doesn't come close to the state of the art in print layout and type-setting from centuries ago (although that's not just the fault of CSS).
But the sort of talks that the writer is talking about annoy me too. CSS is rubbish but most people know that already. It's unimaginative and lazy to constantly repeat it. However rubbish it is, we still have to deal with it for the moment.
These days I just think of CSS as a low-level language that is best left to compilers and so on. In the same way I don't want to hand-code Abstract Syntax Trees, I don't want to write CSS when I can use a higher-level alternative that spits out decent CSS.
But the sort of talks that the writer is talking about annoy me too. CSS is rubbish but most people know that already. It's unimaginative and lazy to constantly repeat it. However rubbish it is, we still have to deal with it for the moment.
These days I just think of CSS as a low-level language that is best left to compilers and so on. In the same way I don't want to hand-code Abstract Syntax Trees, I don't want to write CSS when I can use a higher-level alternative that spits out decent CSS.