Wednesday, March 6, 2024

vanilla, it's the finest of the flavors

 What is Utility-First CSS? - ripping into what is almost certainly a terrible paradigm for CSS modeling.

With so many frameworks and toolkits out there, it feels like a lot of people haven't noticed that Vanilla JS and CSS have gotten pretty good and are certainly reasonable choices for many tasks. I think the secret sauce is browsers that embrace some brilliant emergent standards - and also helped by browsers that update themselves, unlike the bad old days of wondering what version of IE you had to support. (And for better or worse the number of rendering engines has dramatically diminished, so bad quirks are even less common.) Related: A Manifesto for Small Static Web Apps

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