CSS's Ambition (mastodon.social)

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.

I’ve never understood why people hate CSS, but these words connected some dots for me. I grew up with CSS, and it’s surface area has grown with my career. I had many sesaons of tolerating workarounds while longing for simpler solutions. Rounded corners used to be an excercise in chopping up a PSD. Now it’s there for free.

I’d love to see a https://www.executeprogram.com style course for incrementally expanding my CSS knowledge.