CSS Custom Functions are coming
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#2functions in stylesheets?
That's nuts.
The web is developing in the wrong way.
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#3functions in stylesheets? That's nuts. The web is developing in the wrong way.
Instead of XSSs we will soon have XSCSFSs (Cross Site Cascading Style Function Scripting)!
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#4Thanks. Looks hideous.
@function --light-dark(--light, --dark) {
result: var(--light);
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
result: var(--dark);
}
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#5holy shit I need to retire soon
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#6This feels like a really bad idea, I hope it doesn't make it into the browser. CSS Houdini would be a better path to take.
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#7Taking bets now on how long after release it takes to end up with someone making a "JS in CSS" framework, but with the added wrinkle that they have to be serious about it, not just doing it as a joke.
So taking the article seriously and not just being glib:
This feels like a misunderstanding of how to write good CSS. Good CSS is a lot like SQL, which shouldn't be a surprise since it's centered around selectors. CSS is a set-based language. Adding general purpose functions that seem to abuse rule precedence to make conditional statements feels like a dirty hack to force CSS into an imperative model.
Now, maybe there is something to be said for the idea that, here we are, 30 years into having CSS, and people are still bad at set-description operations. Maybe there should be an imperative styling language. But it's a mistake to overload CSS to do it.
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#8Finally, the inverse of CSS-in-JS.
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#9Why do we allow Google to singlehandedly keep pumping garbage into the web ecosystem? Do they own W3C?