Let There Be Peace on CSS

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Cristiano Rastelli:

In the last few months there’s been a growing friction between those who see CSS as an untouchable layer in the “separation of concerns” paradigm, and those who have simply ignored this golden rule and have found different ways to style the UI, typically applying CSS styles via JavaScript.

He does a great job of framing the “problem”, exploring the history, and pointing to things that make this seem rather war-like, including one of my own!

As Cristiano also makes clear that it’s not so much a war but a young community still figuring out things, solving problems for ourselves, and zigzagging through time waiting for this to shake out.

So, here are my suggestions:

  1. Embrace the ever-changing nature of the web.
  2. Be careful with your words: they can hurt.
  3. Be pragmatic, non dogmatic. But most of all, be curious.

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