Public Service Announcement: As a general rule, CSS capabilities cannot be polyfilled by a precompiler; javascript at runtime is required.
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Replying to @chriseppstein
This means that projects like PostCSS, while well intentioned, are fundamentally flawed.
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Replying to @chriseppstein
@chriseppstein Nothing can stop you from generating a js-runtime-polyfill from a PostCSS plugin. Nothing.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @kizmarh
@kizmarh that would be a good way to correctly implement https://github.com/postcss/postcss-custom-properties …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chriseppstein
@chriseppstein@kizmarh Better than no Custom Props at all tho, no?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @brianleroux
@brianleroux@kizmarh people can decide that I guess. I find the uncanny valley of polyfills like this to be more harmful than helpful.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @chriseppstein
@chriseppstein@kizmarh Not sure how it harms other than giving the syntax a spin its just a fancy find/replace.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @brianleroux
@brianleroux : these are all marginal arguments...and I guess you could say CSS has marginalized all of us ;-) /cc@chriseppstein@kizmarh1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @slightlylate
@brianleroux : E.g., is it cheap enough? Is it high-enough fidelity? CSS requires SO MUCH heavy lifting. /cc@chriseppstein@kizmarh2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@brianleroux : That said, I'm pinning my hopes on @bfgeek and the @w3ctag's...insistence...re: extensibility
/cc @chriseppstein @kizmarh
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