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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by selfmodruntime on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:23AM (#47687553)
How are CSS and HTML a mess? Combined, they're an incredibly powerful layout engine that works almost the same across all environments and devices while also featuring easy accessibility.
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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by thibran on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @06:34AM (#47688187)
When taking a bird eyes view on CSS it will be hard to oversee that CSS is a mixture of different concepts that evolved over time with a lot of inconsistentsies. It is possible to make it work, but it's not pretty.

Same for HTML. If the web would be reimagined today, there is a very low chance that we would create HTML as is.

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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by rk06 on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:29AM (#47687611)
the biggest problem with html/css is that they are tightly coupled. you can't meaningfully modify a layout with css alone.

second biggest problem is "no stricter mode". so even wrong or useless html/css code goes unflagged and is treated as it is normal.

CSS is way too powerful.

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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by rho138 on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @06:29AM (#47688158)
> you can’t meaningfully modify a layout with css alone Wut?
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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by manuelmoreale on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @11:53AM (#47691914)
> you can't meaningfully modify a layout with css alone.

https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/

That statement wasn't true ages ago, and it's even less true now.

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