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Re:Constraint CSS by lomnakkus on Friday July 04, 2014 @07:53PM (#7990602)
CSS is fundamentally broken -- it lacks a property which is pretty basic to all systems, namely abstraction. I think Paul Chiusano put it way better than I could: http://pchiusano.github.io/2014-07-02/css-is-unnecessary.htm...
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Re:Constraint CSS by notduncansmith on Friday July 04, 2014 @09:24PM (#7990756)
Try using a preprocessor.
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Re:Constraint CSS by mtdewcmu on Friday July 04, 2014 @09:58PM (#7990804)
Needing a preprocessor to be usable doesn't argue for CSS not being broken. On the contrary.
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Re:Constraint CSS by notduncansmith on Saturday July 05, 2014 @09:32AM (#7991808)
It would take some pretty interesting circumstances for me to argue that using raw CSS is a good idea. As I've said before, the language has plenty of flaws, and using plain CSS without a preprocessor would be, in the majority of cases, irresponsible. Sorry for any confusion.
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Re:Constraint CSS by mtdewcmu on Saturday July 05, 2014 @05:32PM (#7993031)
Thanks to CSS not having that from the start, it led to the situation we have today, where there are at least two different preprocessors to choose from: Sass and Less

Having two solutions is worse than having one solution, and we can credit CSS for creating this situation by not having its own.

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