Is it just me or is the irony lost on the author? It says "align-content: center" but it's only vertically aligned...
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Well, we've been vertically centring content with no-trick pure CSS for years now, so, good I guess?
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* { display: flex; }
Can we not do away with CSS/JS, learn from those mistakes and try something else? Pls, I beg you 🥺🙏
E: Sorry, forgot the /j Lighten up, Lemmy, not everything is a serious comment that needs your scrutiny or meticulous rebuttals.
The first pass of elm ecosystem solved it. Before elm, it was also solved by other frameworks. But people wanted to be able to reuse their components and not rebuild new ones. React provided the ability to reuse css, and dirty js code in the middle of your application. You already had an way bigger ecosystem because you didn’t have to learn and built a complete new system again.
Personally if I had the choice I believe a new start should start at the browser level. Stop supporting HTML/CSS/JS. Create a new app-centric DSL and not a document centric one like html/css/js.
Ideally something inspired from cocoa layout. And I am dreaming but not accept generic code on the client side and only support a small controlled API. It would solve so many security issues. Sure, the creativity in such an ecosystem will be severely reduced. But we will have a so much improved UX.
I get the reasoning but anything like that would just be abused to enshittify things further with unblockable ads and enforced DRM on everything. At least with the open standards there is the ability to adblock and manipulate certain annoyances at a browser level
What would you replace it with? There are lessons to be learnt from the web, but to "fix" it is much harder
It's a joke
Flash and applets. Let's just have a do over of the 90's and early 00's.
/s
Frankly AS did a lot of things well
Nah, just back to Gopher and 5k baud. As an aside: Gemini is pretty awesome
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Well that came like 10 years too late lol
I don't think I'll ever use it considering it was already easily possible with flexbox, and before that (although dirtier) with tables as well.
Why are we not angrier about css generally?
I would say because a) there are zero alternatives, and b) it's pretty powerful; you can generally do pretty much any layout even if it requires hacks, c) switching to something else is clearly infeasible so it's not worth even asking for.
Just have to live with it (on the web at least).
I am blisteringly angry about CSS in general AND THIS FUCKING ISSUE IN PARTICULAR since 2005 at the very latest. Likely enough to up the average for several thousand people with only mild dislike for CSS.
If CSS had a church I would burn it down. In minecraft of course.
BaCkWaRdS cOmPaTiBiLiTy 😵💫
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Oh wonderful! Another 10 years and we can use it natively without polyfills!
It's already supported by ~~96%~~ 87% of browsers currently in use.
~~Yeah, pretty much as Flex at 97% which is a nice comparison.~~
Edit: See mattd’s comment
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