But can it run crysis?
CSS is DOOMed
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#92While running Doom on X is typically a show of personal hacking skills, and a display of the turing completeness/power of X,
I think that running Doom on X can also be a criticism of X, certainly the opposite of the intention in some cases. Consider a config mechanicsm, if I prove that I can run Doom on .md or .ini, or notepad.exe, most people should be concerned, not just for bloat, but for security reasons.
The value of some tech is precisely in what it cannot do, not just what it can do.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be honest, did you just reply to the title and the title along even skipping the other comments?
I opened the article and read the first paragraph. Then skimmed the rest. As others pointed out: the fact you can do this in CSS tells you everything you need to know if you consider what CSS is for. Even w/o ever looking at the spec or understanding how it came to be.
i don't see what you mean? it's a rendering technology
i guess if you're someone still stuck on the "web browsers are for displaying static documents" and "css is for prettifying markup" thing, then sure, I bet what you said sounds real witty
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#94Beautiful. Art.
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#95Perfect!
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#96I feel there should be a gov dep where all the "i turned this into DOOM" folks get hired, to build the next spicy interplanetary propulsion systems. They are clearly needing an exotic task to stop twiddling their fingers.
They would just end up making the thing they're building run Doom.
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#97This feels like one of those “because we can” projects that accidentally reveals where the platform is going. CSS started as purely declarative styling, but between things like conditionals, math functions, and now these rendering tricks, it’s slowly creeping into “programmable system” territory. Not because it’s the right tool for it, but because browsers are becoming the real runtime. The interesting question isn’t…
It's abstraction inversion at its finest. Declarative styling sounded like a good idea, but it jumped the shark long ago. It's begging to become a real programming language but for some reason the design ethos behind CSS seems to have been avoiding programming at all costs--maybe that's to keep the browser renderer in control (and hopefully responsive), maybe it's because they didn't want designers to have to learn to program, maybe they just hate JS. Whatever the reason, it's clear that CSS took a wrong turn and mutated into absolutely the wrong abstraction.
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#98I remember when we needed 4 gifs to make rounded corners on a div
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#99I remember when we needed 4 gifs to make rounded corners on a div
div tags? pah, I remember when all this were tables lad.
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#100I feel there should be a gov dep where all the "i turned this into DOOM" folks get hired, to build the next spicy interplanetary propulsion systems. They are clearly needing an exotic task to stop twiddling their fingers.
They would just end up making the thing they're building run Doom.
And then they would find a way to make that embedded Doom run the thing that they are building [1]. Possibly inside a cellular automaton.
[1] Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202212-doom-calculator/