I’m convinced 40%+ of the anti-CSS complaining is out of frustration from folks who haven’t actually learned how Specificity works. I wrote CSS for five years before I knew this is a thing I needed to learn. It was @mholzschlag who taught me, at a presentation she gave in NYC.
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100% agree. I've found a big part of it is that many developers' first experience with CSS is often with frameworks like Bootstrap that have some really terrible anti-patterns in their codebases. Highly specific selectors, overriding its own values etc.
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It's no wonder they write bad CSS & end up hating it. I think until you start diving into CSS more and discover methodologies like BEM–and its preaching of flat selectors–that writing CSS becomes much less of a headache. How we get everyone to learn that? Well that's the question
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I don't think everyone should always use 'flat selectors'. Methodologies like OOCSS (the original) can be the right solution for big projects with dozens or hundreds of developers over years, but other projects are better served by other structures.
It depends™.
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That's definitely a factor. Time, confusion, knowledge that spans the evolution of #webdev - what we do is a complicated profession and we don't credit ourselves enough that in 20+ years we created something that can be profoundly useful to humanity when used for good.
Jan 22, 2019 · 7:03 PM UTC
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