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Reading the radial gradient example I’m struck by how much English is used, “farthest-side” as an example, and how far beyond short hand symbols for concepts (“
by dayjah 2y ago
Reading the radial gradient example I’m struck by how much English is used, “farthest-side” as an example, and how far beyond short hand symbols for concepts (“var”, “int”, etc) we’ve moved.
I’ve been around a while, I understand that English is the lingua-franca of compiled languages … but CSS seems like a singular travesty.. other instructions in the “radial-gradient” function are “animate”, “infinite”, “alternate”.
I feel like CSS deserves to be internationalized, as it stands this group is creating a dialect that only English speakers can understand with relatively low cognitive load.
- addicted 2y agoEnglish is the most spoken language in the world but also the most distributed. Mandarin and Hindi follow but unlike English theyre heavily concentrated geographically. Also, the symbolic examples you’ve provided are also based off English (variable and integer). It’s just that in a pre-cheap compression time words would be shortened to reduce space or transfer bits, but with cheap and easy compression that’s not a concern anymore.
- yesco 2y agoWhile CSS certainly leans more on existing English semantics, it's so heavy with jargon I think you may find that those more familiar with English semantics don't usually get that much of a head start when first learning CSS. Ultimately the learning pattern of looking up what each individual property does and how interacts with the DOM remains regardless of if you know English or not. If anything I think the English semantics of CSS are more misleading than intuitive.