4 ms·
CSS is great until it isn't. The abstraction layer it provides is clever and useful, but also incomplete, opaque and so idiosyncratic that getting better at usi
by dgb23 3y ago
CSS is great until it isn't. The abstraction layer it provides is clever and useful, but also incomplete, opaque and so idiosyncratic that getting better at using and understanding it provides you with close to zero transferable skills (in our out).
- PaulHoule 3y agoBack in the 1990s developers were very happy with Visual Basic on Windows where everything was laid out by pixels which of course didn't make the most of every possible screen size but you could have a dev- and designer- UI builder that people understood. I've never seen devs or designers really be happy with any system for flexible layout.