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zaphar  ·  4031 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tetris & the power of CSS

So my day job for the last 6 months has been writing CSS tooling and he is absolutely correct. CSS takes some work to understand and neither LESS or SASS is going to make that any easier. They may make it easier to write some of it but they won't make it easier to understand it.

As a somewhat random aside, CSS is a pain to parse. Just sayin.





user-inactivated  ·  4029 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is why I've been weary of experimenting with HTML5. CSS has caused HTML to have features removed (such as background images/colors) and replaced in a more complicated format, for a single example. To be perfectly honest, CSS intimidates me.

zaphar  ·  4029 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's worth learning about. CSS can be really powerful and it's declarative nature is useful.