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Most people don't really know css that well, because you can quickly open a browser tab and fiddle around till you get it right. If it took half an hour to comp
by kabes 10y ago
Most people don't really know css that well, because you can quickly open a browser tab and fiddle around till you get it right. If it took half an hour to compile between changes I'm sure people would know CSS far better.
- michaelscott 10y agoI'd rather mess around to get the visual I'm looking for (the results of CSS are nothing if not visual) than read up on copious amounts of documentation. Visual learning for a visual medium.
- afarrell 10y agoI think if it took a half hour compilation step, someone would have written a decent intro tutorial which taught a consistent and useful mental model of CSS. Either that or CSS would have just died off. The fact that a lot of other people here are saying that they have to fiddle with CSS to get it right is making me feel a lot less shitty as a web dev.
- spiderfarmer 10y agoSometimes you just think you know how something works, so you don't study it anymore. I have a rule that if I'm Googling a symptom for the second time that I have to take some time to learn more about the subject.