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> Technical debt in CSS seems to be both more inevitable and less problematic than application code Nicely put. I've stressed over finding unused rules, restru
by vlunkr 5y ago
> Technical debt in CSS seems to be both more inevitable and less problematic than application code
Nicely put. I've stressed over finding unused rules, restructuring, etc. but in the end it never matters as long as it displays correctly.
- rectang 5y agoThe big problem is knowing all the places which could be displaying incorrectly when you make a change. This is a fundamental design issue with the cascade: unbounded silent failure because rule activation is implicit. In addition, there is the difficulty of inspecting those sites which you can identify to verify that display is correct, which is hard to achieve programmatically.