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I know CSS, but also a few other displays and layout engines. In my experience "CSS sucks" right up until you try to do a tenth of what it offers in something
by oliwarner 9mo ago
I know CSS, but also a few other displays and layout engines.
In my experience "CSS sucks" right up until you try to do a tenth of what it offers in something else. Cross-platform, device-neutral UI is hard. Then allow user-provided alterations?
- IshKebab 9mo agoRight but isn't that just because it's huge and pervasive. Not because it is necessarily well-designed. It sucks and it's very powerful and flexible.
- janderland 9mo agoIt depends on what you mean by "sucks". I don't think anyone here is denying that it's often the best tool for the job. You SHOULD learn CSS if you want to be an effective UI programmer simply because you'll encounter it everywhere. But the quality of the language should still be critique IMO.
- jeberle 9mo agoThat's the basis for my critique of CSS. There were plenty of other layout systems extant at the time CSS was cooked up. How CSS could have delivered such an incomplete and broken scheme is beyond me. To this day, it sucks harder than GridBagLayout from AWT of the 90s (and that one sucks a quite bit).
- lvncelot 9mo agoYeah, there's a good reason why I have a lot of criticisms about CSS and only some about, say, QT. It's because I spent the last 15+ years writing CSS in some way or another and one extended summer of hacking a side project in QT, abandoning it, and never looking back.