Re:Why Tailwind CSS Won
by strken on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @07:09AM
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There is a real though very niche reason why having fewer selectors is useful, speaking as someone who has run into the selector limit in IE before.
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Re:Why Tailwind CSS Won
by martyfmelb on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @07:44AM
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Also speaking from experience — you have to have a lot of bespoke CSS and virtually no design system / internal consistency to run into that limit (a.k.a the Movember 2013 brand refresh).
And finally, when you did run into the IE selector limit, you could just split the style sheet in two (fairly trivial if you were using Sass), because the selector limit was per stylesheet.