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I agree, but I'd even say that becoming pro at CSS is orders of magnitude easier than becoming pro at your average programming language. I think engineers just
by epgui 4y ago
I agree, but I'd even say that becoming pro at CSS is orders of magnitude easier than becoming pro at your average programming language. I think engineers just tend to not take the task seriously, and don't apply themselves enough.
You just need to actually understand the box object model and a handful of common gotchas.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoCSS is essentially declarative programming for several different black-box systems. How selectors are written has exponential performance implications. Using the wrong type of transform might make your page forego hardware acceleration, or use more battery on a mobile device. At least typical programming languages are targeting a known set of environments and devices with known characteristics. You definitely need to understand a lot more than the box model and a handful of gotchas.