> I am increasingly worried about the “smart” CSS solutions. I'm not worried. > The spec is already huge, the selectors are hard to read and google, the inter

> I am increasingly worried about the “smart” CSS solutions. I'm not worried. > The spec is already huge, the selectors are hard to read and google, the interplay between various features is devilishly complex. Actually things are getting less complex due the fact we don't need to use all of the hacks, work-arounds and polyfills that were once just what pretty much every web developer did not that long ago. And of course, the original sin of the misuse of HTML tables for layout. Sure, it wasn't fun to deal with new specs coming out while trying to maintain existing code and attempting to understand when (or if) we can use the new stuff. Sometimes is was like trying to fly a plane while the plane is being retrofitted with new features. The irony: many of the techniques described in the article is how we should have been doing things for along time. Hayden's article [1], which is the basis for this, was published nearly 10 years ago—these concepts aren't new. [1]: https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls/ https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized...