Re:Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
by zapzupnz on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:16AM
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Then I guess my dream system marries the two concepts, somehow. I don't think we should accept CSS just because it's what we have; far too many people find it confusing and dislikable.
At this point, I'm starting to look into things that "transpile" to CSS.
Re:Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
by alexis_read on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:53AM
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IMHO I think that one of the main problems with CSS is that it doesn't have an explicit model of text. If you have that, then a constraint-based designer can take you through wizards to ask to to consider eg. When there's more text than space. Springs, struts etc. Can take care of layout. Controversially I think we should replace/remove div tags as they don't make all their behavior explicit vs flexbox/ cssgrid etc. Every object should have explicit layout behaviors defined. Then you can compose them or create new objects for undefined cases.
Positioning is one thing, but CSS really shines in it's graphical abilities. Autolayout is fantastic, but have you tried writing the custom CoreGraphics code that is required to do anything outside of standard UIKit visuals? Not fun [0]. Being able to just type `background: linear-gradient(orange, green)` is a godsend compared to that stuff.
[0] https://github.com/amraboelela/myos.examples/blob/master/Cor...