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Eric A. Meyer @Meyerweb@mastodon.social
7mo
I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.
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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist
7mo
@Meyerweb I would say "CSS is too big" is a valid criticism for a simple reason: you picked you brother in Chromium because that's basically one of 3 options that can ever exist due to how big CSS is. Outside Chromium, Webkit and Gecko, there are a few attempts to create a new browser engine but the task is so massive that it would take a decade, during which more things are added... And because we don't want to break existing websites, nothing can be cleaned up, so yes, we end up with bloat. That's just the result of needing to support the whole World Wide Web, including old websites that won't be updated to new standards.
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