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Tailwind vs. normal CSS - performance and size (nuejs.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This study compares two websites with similar design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what "semantic css" is, to me that's just normal css. I felt the original title could be confusing for people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But you didn't use the word normal / plain / vanilla. You used proper, which is a loaded word.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh no, loaded words.

I've changed it to 'normal' :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Please just use the original title. Semantic CSS is an actual thing and it takes 2 seconds to google what it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

This is kinda strange. You think I'm going to reword my post a second time??

If you don't like a post, just downvote it or contribute some better posts.

You're probably pissing in the wind tho as this is the most upvoted post in this community in the last 6 months hahaha https://programming.dev/c/webdev?dataType=Post&sort=TopSixMonths

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

You could just as easily use the article's title and save your opinions for the post body or the comments, but you didn't.

Oh no, implicit bias. Twice!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But plain CSS is proper CSS. Tailwind is training wheels for people who don't want to learn CSS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That is not true. You do need to know CSS to make proper use of Tailwind for anything beyond changing colors and padding. That's the reason why the Intellisense VS Code extension gives the underlying CSS on hover. I'd love to see a newbie try content layout knowing nothing but Tailwind.