Re:Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS
by akvadrako on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:23AM
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I admit, after the middle of that article anything would look good.
It's a good realisation that there is no real separation of semantics and styling between HTML and CSS. XSL would have been one solution, but it was just too XML-ly. Personally I found it a joy; I could design my pages with pure semantics alongside a turing-complete stylesheet.
However now we have web components - your HTML and CSS are tightly coupled, but scoped. And the semantic / styling separation is provided by the shadow DOM. So no need to create inner platforms like Tailwind.
It's a good realisation that there is no real separation of semantics and styling between HTML and CSS. XSL would have been one solution, but it was just too XML-ly. Personally I found it a joy; I could design my pages with pure semantics alongside a turing-complete stylesheet.
However now we have web components - your HTML and CSS are tightly coupled, but scoped. And the semantic / styling separation is provided by the shadow DOM. So no need to create inner platforms like Tailwind.