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.
Emma Bostian @EmmaBostian
21 Jan 2019
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Replying to @jensimmons
I've been thinking a lot about this issue today and don't think it's an issue of anti-css but what is fast and easy. An example is encouraging inline CSS, or cheating with a !important without knowing where a conflict is, causing potentially more conflicts down the road ...

Jan 23, 2019 · 4:43 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @jensimmons
People still think Web design and development is easy. CSS and SVG are not easy at all. Neither is Javascript. I have talked with JS-first devs who, upon learning a little bit about CSS, get more excited. It's declarative but CSS demands understanding of how browsers work.
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Too much focus in the last years on performance over quality browser development and the nuances that exist between them. I made an entire career on the subject! And it feels crappy because we didn't keep at it after 2015 and the rise of frameworks. I'm going to do a mini-series.
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I would love to see a mini series from you! Let me know if I can help — at minimum by promoting it.
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Replying to @mholzschlag @jensimmons
I started doing this a year or two ago and no one really paid attention (well, @fantasi did and clarified some of my language). So it was beneficial for me but it just didn't take at that point. I have a presentation here from 2005 "CSS for Developers" - just at the rise of apps.
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Gonna update that this week or so and make it available for all who care, but I'm stepping through the entire cascade because the two are bound and this has to be understood, which it isn't.
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Oy with the inline styles! It’s the one reservation I haven’t completely let go of wrt the new block editor in WordPress. Recently my friend in our subdivision who maintains the content for the neighborhood site made some style changes in the classic editor, and
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You better believe I put a stop to that. Correcting stuff like that can put a person on meds for the duration.