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CSS Is Dead!

Alvaro Montoro on March 20, 2023

This is the comic I coded this week for comiCSS. It is a silly joke drawn with HTML and CSS (you can see the source code here): The design for t...
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Mathieu Grenier

you mean: "Death in CSS"

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webduvet

or death by CSS...

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Maciek Fitzner • Edited

Famous last words:

Over my dev 〈body〉〈∕body〉

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Alvaro Montoro

That too 🤓

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Tarix Sahnoun

Death by CSS Grid

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Corners 2 Wall

Amazing, looks impossible. Good job

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ANKIT KUMAR

As a new guy in css world looks impossible to me.

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onome blessing

we share same feeling.... hope we get better soon

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Alvaro Montoro

If it helps anything, what's showcased on this post is not something especially practical or useful for web development.

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Anthony Fung

This is really cool - thanks for sharing!

How long did this take to write?

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Alvaro Montoro

The static cartoon took me less than 1 hour. Animating it took longer 😅

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Anthony Fung

I suppose time doesn't matter so much if it's fun. It certainly looks like it was worth it!

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Matheus Adorni Dardenne

CSS is dead.... long live CSS. 😂

Awesome animation, very well done.

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Duncan Teege

Haha, this is a fun way of making a comic! Well done!

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Azhar Subair

Wonderful

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Rumen Dimov

Wow, that's pretty cool!

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Christopher Duran

ja, funny but interesting!

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Dipanjan Ghosal

My god, this is incredible! You can probably make YouTube videos/streams while making these...

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Alvaro Montoro

Sometimes, I share the drawing process on Youtube: youtube.com/alvaromontoro.
Twitch is something I've been exploring, but I'm not consistent.

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Gulshan Aggarwal

Comic about CSS seems Cool !

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Eckehard

What precisely does CSS mean?

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Alvaro Montoro

Comic Strips & Styling.

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Ebenezer Enietan (Niza)

what a title!

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k1lgor

nice man!!

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Md.Mustakim Ahmed

Cool 👌

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Mahadev K

Yeah css is a very cool language. Learning that makes life easier than including more cdn in your code

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Rense Bakker

you still write css with css-in-js frameworks, its just in your javascript code, which has some advantages, like being able to easily reflect changes at runtime, without the need to manipulate css variables using js.

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Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel

😢

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Samuel Stanek

In a post-credit screen we discover that CSS is Death 💀👀

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Alvaro Montoro

It always was 😈💀

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Sita Tan

interesting! I love this!

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iampossessed

Wow that's cool man. I mean the image, of course. Not CSS troubles.

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Jesus W Sanchez Jimenez

Good Job

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Alvaro Montoro

Thanks!

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codingjlu

Looks cool, but I still don't know what "CSS is dead" means.

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Alvaro Montoro

Every now and then a new JS library/framework pops up claiming that they are the best way of doing styling, and they are here to replace CSS. I tried to summarize that into a "CSS is dead!" message from JS, but maybe it's not too clear.

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codingjlu

Oh, I see, but can you show me an example of a library that says that? In the end it's still CSS...

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Alvaro Montoro

Yes, all end up generating/compiling into CSS in the end. They claim is that they are easier or that you won't need to do anything on the CSS side (all in JS or HTML.)

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Ashutosh Kumar

Death by flex!

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