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Re:They Say: Do Not Use Margins in CSS. How I Use Them Anyway by gherkinnn on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:49AM (#29943922)
The difference in selector speed is negligible. Choosing minimal perf gains over greatly improved ergonomics is pain.

It was last an issue with IE7 and 8 [0], an era we don’t like to talk about.

0 - https://web.archive.org/web/20130508170505/https://developer...

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Re:They Say: Do Not Use Margins in CSS. How I Use Them Anyway by eurasiantiger on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:55AM (#29944613)
Did you just call eliminating quadratic behaviour a negligible gain in the context of graphics rendering?

I’m pretty sure you’re wrong there.

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