- From: Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:11:34 -0400
- To: "Jens O. Meiert" <jens@meiert.com>
- Cc: W3C WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>, jens.meiert@gmail.com
Le 2014-10-09 09:38, Jens O. Meiert a écrit : > Not to toot horns but as a distant follow-up to earlier discussions > around CSS complexity [1] and fragmentation [2]: > > http://meiert.com/en/blog/20141009/css-dry-and-optimization/ > > In short, but I’d wish the article to share the necessary detail, > there’s long been a tendency for many web developers to forget to > optimize style sheets, something that primarily makes them “WET,” and > I think that issue justifies becoming a bigger concern for the group > here. > > (I’m in a travel sprint and on and off in case this raises other > questions, so I just wish to share what I deem points that don’t get > as much coverage as they may deserve.) > > Cheers, > Jens. > > > [1] > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Nov/thread.html#msg190 > [2] > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Dec/thread.html#msg81 CSS was originally designed to reduce code and to encourage (or favor) code re-use. Today, it's the opposite that prevails overwhelmingly on the web. A majority of author style sheets have useless and pointless redeclarations and multiple redefinitions. Also we see use of CSS resets very often for no reason - that is for no *good* reason - . There is such a thing as bloated CSS code. Ignorance of user agent style sheets does not explain everything. Overall, web designers are "visual control freaks" and pursueing pixel-perfect chimera. Gérard
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