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Ah yeah good old floats. It was all about knowing the clear tricks, not sure I could still do it these days haha. Agree, it was a lot harder. But even that was
by codeptualize 5y ago
Ah yeah good old floats. It was all about knowing the clear tricks, not sure I could still do it these days haha. Agree, it was a lot harder. But even that was a lot easier then making layouts with tables, or frames haha, so I didn’t mind, it already felt like a massive improvement. But yeah flex is great, I also really enjoy grid. Similar tricky to get started with but insanely powerful.
You describe it very well; that expressiveness is what’s really enjoyable, and pretty much impossible to find elsewhere.
I think it’s maybe just a professional tool, hard to start with but once you get over the initial hurtle it becomes very powerful. In that sense it’s not that different from learning any programming language. It’s a good question if it could be easier, I’ve also done that exercise of “how else” I think the problem might be the complexity and messiness of ui and layout, it’s not css, it’s the layout. I think it could and will be easier though, not as something totally different, but simply improving what’s there; basically continuing the path it’s already been on for the past decades. I’m truly enjoying it today and excited for what’s to come!
- westoncb 5y ago> that expressiveness is what’s really enjoyable, and pretty much impossible to find elsewhere. I've often thought it's because CSS is lower-level, more like a tool for creating UI libraries (similar to writing e.g. OpenGL directly vs a higher-level scene graph lib built on top of it)—but when you want to make something unique, there's really no competition. > I think it could and will be easier though, not as something totally different, but simply improving what’s there; basically continuing the path it’s already been on for the past decades. Seems likely to me too.