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"What's next for CSS? Probably CSS Current_Version+1, designed by committee [...]" But this is the beautiful thing about popularizing the concept of compiling
by jlong 17y ago
"What's next for CSS? Probably CSS Current_Version+1, designed by committee [...]"
But this is the beautiful thing about popularizing the concept of compiling to CSS. Once you are liberated from the Browser's implementation a whole new world opens up. Experimentation can be conducted in languages that compile to CSS.
Right now the reason why we need a committee to decide what goes into CSS is that we all suffer the consequences if they get it wrong. With languages that compile to CSS, bad ideas only hurt that language.
Freedom for experimentation can only be good for CSS in the long run.
- toothcomb 17y agoBut sadly you have to consider the browser's implementation. Or are you referring to the little macros's or mixins or whatever they are called?
- nex3 17y agoI believe jlong is referring to the functionality added by an abstraction layer. Sass allows people to experiment with additions to CSS, and it gives the CSS designers good insight into what people would find most useful.
- toothcomb 17y agoCss has been thwarted by poor implementation that has led to confusion, and elitism. With regards to abstraction I don't see why there aren't any excellent WYSIWYG editors.
- nimbupani 17y agoThere is, it is called WidgEditor http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/widgEditor/ http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/widgEditor/