"Take care of the code, be gentle to the computer and make beautiful stuff on your screens" what a quote from the

I can still get the data of the Gutenberg bible, but I can't get information from it. The language and the lettering has changed so much that I can't read it anymore. On the other hand, historians can still read it. Maybe there will be code historians in the future...

@DejayClayton

8 ай бұрын

Or, there will be LLM AI to decipher it for you.

@Drop_cat

8 ай бұрын

Very beautiful comment, but AI will probably do that.

My opinion is that CSS was designed to be too abstract, just like HTML was. I remember asking Håkon, a decade ago, why CSS didn't allow for per-browser style rules. His was response was basically, "CSS design shouldn't care about the particular user agent." As a result, CSS became flooded with a metric ton of styling hacks that were designed to target specific browsers anyway, but in a fashion that was extremely hacky, hard to reason about, and brittle enough to break whenever a browser was updated. Great foresight! And it didn't help that browsers initially didn't even have ACID tests. At any event, I still think that CSS should allow for a "browser capabilities" mechanism, similar to "termcap" for TTYs, to allow rendering to be specified as appropriate for the capabilities of the user agents. It's time to kill the need for CSS browser hacks.

@Drop_cat

8 ай бұрын

I think i saw i phd thesis about this somewhere, maybe in a conference, It's a promising but maybe too much optimistic field of what can make UX better, it would take a lot to balance between portability and performance.

"Creator of CSS" , I don't think a lot of people understand that Bert Bos is like the Wozniak of CSS

try of platform default string

The hard part of CSS is to guess and give a name to your Class 😄

@danielwan9844

5 ай бұрын

I have been saying this all the time.. I sometimes make chatgpt decide for me.

CSS should Die. In 90s it made sense, as everyone was coding the visuals, but it is moronic to code visuals in 2023 We had hypercard, we should have built the web around that model than the stupid markdowns and styling path we choose

@litjellyfish

Ай бұрын

What has CSS to do with coding? It’s a style guide and nothing to else. No need to code it. You have tooling that sets up the styling layout and generates the code. What your you suggest instead ?