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> On the other hand, CSS style sheets are short. They are not much bigger than one editor window. Very few people (only professional designers, it seems) write
by dsego 9y ago
> On the other hand, CSS style sheets are short. They are not much bigger than one editor window. Very few people (only professional designers, it seems) write style sheets longer than a hundred lines.
Even for 2008 this is just wrong. Very few people write any kind of CSS at all. But those who do surely write more.
- memco 9y agoI've been hand rolling CSS for pretty much every site I've built since 2001. I can't think of a single site with more than a few hundred lines. Most of the time I use a reset which adds more, but the actual site specific stuff has always been relatively small. Anecdata… mumble, mumble. With respect to the premise of the article: I appreciate having variables because it allows more specificity about what a color or unit is supposed to mean in a given context, which I find valuable.
- dbbk 9y agoI'm quite baffled by this... I'm presuming this was in the context of the time when tables were used for layout everywhere
- bryanrasmussen 9y agoin my experience tables were hardly used anywhere for layout in 2008.
- zimpenfish 9y agoA single example, sure, but quite a high profile site: news.bbc.co.uk was using tables for layout in 2008 - https://web.archive.org/web/20080306220511/http://news.bbc.co.uk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080306220511/http://news.bbc.c...
- bryanrasmussen 9y agoOk maybe I was just lucky in where I worked.
- dbbk 9y agoSadly we were where I worked :(