@rauchg @wycats @ryanflorence I'd like to weigh in here as someone who writes (S)CSS p much day in / day out, re "best tool for the job"
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basically, if I could, I would write all of my styles in Javascript. Hell I'd write them using canvas!
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I think
@ryanflorence nailed it in an early tweet asking whether or not HTML and CSS are good abstractions.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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HTML and CSS are excellent abstractions. For documents. Not necessarily for complex web apps.
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and when I'm in the weeds, I tend to forget that that's what all of these abstractions were og designed for
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unfortunately, we are trying to accommodate all browsers and platforms, and many don't want to have to rely...
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on JS for styling, which makes sense (separation of concerns, overhead of script evaluation, etc)
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but for apps that have already opted in to lots of JS, why not? Access to the page's context, RTL detection,..
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this is really a huge deal people forget.
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