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It's so funny, but as I become an exponentially better and better programmer, I start finding myself more and more drawn to stuff like this that someone put tog

It's so funny, but as I become an exponentially better and better programmer, I start finding myself more and more drawn to stuff like this that someone put together in 2 days and is billed as "light weight" over any other feature than something with a trillion options already built for me. Whenever a Javscript library throws a ton of inline !important css just to get their shit to look good, I'm like "now what am I supposed to do to make it look how I want it to look? To behave how I want it to behave? STOP IT!"

highace 14y ago
There's only one logical outcome: we need to introduce the !really-important marker.
- tomasien 14y ago
  Maybe it would make things more confusing, but I've never understood why you can't just add extra !'s to !important and make it more important, like a z-index of importance. I can never see it getting very many levels deep, it's only REALLY for using other peoples code and overriding it where you can't get to it.
  - tekacs 14y ago
    I strongly suspect that this would, amongst other things, encourage some particularly sloppy library maintainers to ship 'fixes' or indeed first versions with many rules marked with !!!!!!!!!!important, to avoid just this. :/
    - FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
      It'd be akin to the smattering of z-index:9999 you see all over the place.
      - avalaunch 14y ago
        True, but just because something can be abused by sloppy programmers doesn't mean it isn't a good idea. Can you imagine if you z-index was a boolean?
    - wmeredith 14y ago
      The allowance of only one important is a feature not a bug. If everything is important than nothing is.
- alex_doom 14y ago
  The Ministry of Doublespeak reminds you to simply use two !important !important.
diiiimaaaa 14y ago
I completely agree with you. For this exact reason I've made this plugin modular. Which means that you can include only parts that actually use, both from JS part (thanks to Grunt) and from CSS part (thanks to Sass).
- tmzt 14y ago
  Is it possible to use this as a dialog box/modal without the image features?

highace 14y ago

There's only one logical outcome: we need to introduce the !really-important marker.

tomasien 14y ago
Maybe it would make things more confusing, but I've never understood why you can't just add extra !'s to !important and make it more important, like a z-index of importance. I can never see it getting very many levels deep, it's only REALLY for using other peoples code and overriding it where you can't get to it.
- tekacs 14y ago
  I strongly suspect that this would, amongst other things, encourage some particularly sloppy library maintainers to ship 'fixes' or indeed first versions with many rules marked with !!!!!!!!!!important, to avoid just this. :/
  - FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
    It'd be akin to the smattering of z-index:9999 you see all over the place.
    - avalaunch 14y ago
      True, but just because something can be abused by sloppy programmers doesn't mean it isn't a good idea. Can you imagine if you z-index was a boolean?
  - wmeredith 14y ago
    The allowance of only one important is a feature not a bug. If everything is important than nothing is.
alex_doom 14y ago
The Ministry of Doublespeak reminds you to simply use two !important !important.

diiiimaaaa 14y ago

I completely agree with you. For this exact reason I've made this plugin modular. Which means that you can include only parts that actually use, both from JS part (thanks to Grunt) and from CSS part (thanks to Sass).

tmzt 14y ago
Is it possible to use this as a dialog box/modal without the image features?