Why is CSS the way it is?
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Why is CSS the way it is?
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#2Can we just embed Flutter in every browser? !important
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#3Can we just embed Flutter in every browser? !important
It was called Flash.
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#5I have a weird relationship regarding CSS:
I kinda like it (although some things could be even a bit more powerful), yet everybody I meet tells me how horrible and hard etc it is. I never had that feeling at all, not even back when I started using it as a teenager to customise my MySpace site.
I cursed at how hard common things like centering a image within a div were, I cursed at the purposeful and ignorant incompatibilities of different browsers, but with CSS3 I was sold, even more so when grid based layouts and flexbox became a thing one could lean on.
The one thing that I miss is a little bit more power when it comes to selectors. E.g. there is no way to select a
which has only a as a child, which is coincidentally something that a standard conform markdown to HTML converter will produce. So you cannot — say give your
a max-width of 120ch without also limiting the width of the contained within it. AFAIK there is a parent selector planned that might address this if I recall correctly.
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#6I have a weird relationship regarding CSS: I kinda like it (although some things could be even a bit more powerful), yet everybody I meet tells me how horrible and hard etc it is. I never had that feeling at all, not even back when I started using it as a teenager to customise my MySpace site. I cursed at how hard common things like centering a image within a div were, I cursed at the purposeful and ignorant incompat…
You can't work out the logical consequences of seemingly obvious properties. That is unlike 95% of most programming I do in any programming language I've ever used. Since I have zero interest in learning unintuitive interfaces to GUI design, I have zero interesting in excusing CSS. It is not difficult to learn, it is not difficult to understand in terms of conceptual understanding, it is downright tedious to learn though - and you don't get anything unique out of it that can't be done in anything else: you get a nice looking website. Amazing.
Re: Why is CSS the way it is?
#7I have a weird relationship regarding CSS: I kinda like it (although some things could be even a bit more powerful), yet everybody I meet tells me how horrible and hard etc it is. I never had that feeling at all, not even back when I started using it as a teenager to customise my MySpace site. I cursed at how hard common things like centering a image within a div were, I cursed at the purposeful and ignorant incompat…
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/selectors/o/only-child/
The :only-child pseudo-class selector property in CSS represents an element that has a parent element and whose parent element has no other element children.
on edit: sorry I got confused and dropped your requirement to select the parent.
Re: Why is CSS the way it is?
#8I have a weird relationship regarding CSS: I kinda like it (although some things could be even a bit more powerful), yet everybody I meet tells me how horrible and hard etc it is. I never had that feeling at all, not even back when I started using it as a teenager to customise my MySpace site. I cursed at how hard common things like centering a image within a div were, I cursed at the purposeful and ignorant incompat…
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/selectors/o/only-child/ The :only-child pseudo-class selector property in CSS represents an element that has a parent element and whose parent element has no other element children. on edit: sorry I got confused and dropped your requirement to select the parent.
Yes but you cannot select the parent p which is what they were talking about.
Re: Why is CSS the way it is?
#9I have a weird relationship regarding CSS: I kinda like it (although some things could be even a bit more powerful), yet everybody I meet tells me how horrible and hard etc it is. I never had that feeling at all, not even back when I started using it as a teenager to customise my MySpace site. I cursed at how hard common things like centering a image within a div were, I cursed at the purposeful and ignorant incompat…
You can't work out the logical consequences of seemingly obvious properties. That is unlike 95% of most programming I do in any programming language I've ever used. Since I have zero interest in learning unintuitive interfaces to GUI design, I have zero interesting in excusing CSS. It is not difficult to learn, it is not difficult to understand in terms of conceptual understanding, it is downright tedious to learn th…
> You can't work out the logical consequences of seemingly obvious properties.
Could you expand on this a little / give an example?
Re: Why is CSS the way it is?
#10I have a weird relationship regarding CSS: I kinda like it (although some things could be even a bit more powerful), yet everybody I meet tells me how horrible and hard etc it is. I never had that feeling at all, not even back when I started using it as a teenager to customise my MySpace site. I cursed at how hard common things like centering a image within a div were, I cursed at the purposeful and ignorant incompat…
You can't work out the logical consequences of seemingly obvious properties. That is unlike 95% of most programming I do in any programming language I've ever used. Since I have zero interest in learning unintuitive interfaces to GUI design, I have zero interesting in excusing CSS. It is not difficult to learn, it is not difficult to understand in terms of conceptual understanding, it is downright tedious to learn th…
> it is not difficult to understand in terms of conceptual understanding
So what is your point? What you lack is motivation to make things pretty so it's not CSS's fault :)