DEV Community

Discussion on: So, how many of you respect CSS as a programming language?

Collapse
 
unsungnovelty profile image
Nikhil

I love that people don't like CSS. Just leverage for other people! :evil_smile:

Personally I have been fascinated by it because when I first when I was 12 or 13, there was only HTML 4 (for me. CSS was not something that was popular in school curriculums, at least not in mine! ) and I used to go nuts on my school computer with HTML 4 and it's "capabilities".

When I started learning HTML recently, CSS became a key factor. Obviously the landscape has changed with great capabilities. CSS, SASS, Animations, CSS Grid and Flexbox. When I hear people hating CSS, it obviously because they don't know how to tame it. CSS is brutally honest you know. Tolerance is the key I guess. :)

Collapse
 
ajxn profile image
Anders Jackson

Agree.
HTML is about the structure, or should att least be.
This is actually a table, this is a paragraph and this is din titel and sub sub titel etc.

The look, should all be in the CSS.

I do have full respect for people that can make design magic with CSS and a plain HTML file, not so much of People that uses tables to make a page "look right". Never hade.

Have hade that since from the start, because it broke the meaning of HTML. Also, I played with the first CSS support in the 1990:th too. I saw the light from the beginning there...

But then I also wrote LaTeX before HTML was presented.

Yes, I codes CGI in Python before 1995...

Collapse
 
unsungnovelty profile image
Nikhil

I do have full respect for people that can make design magic with CSS and a plain HTML file.

I've kept my personal website html and css only too - unsungnovelty.org/. I will add JS when there is a need for it.

But this is normal to tech industry in general though. We don't utilise things to it's true potential. We move around looking for the silver bullet even after getting the silver bullet! The apps we use, the technology that we use to power products are never utilised for it's full potential. And then we get amazed when someone use it to it's full potential. :D