- From: Stefan Schumacher <stefan@duckflight.de>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 10:50:01 +0530
- To: www-style@w3.org
Am 23.05.2015 um 08:28 schrieb Glen Huang: > I wonder if there is any interest in evolve css to that direction? Who is the target group for CSS? HTML is for the common common web developer. CSS is for the common web developer. JS and PHP already go one step up, the target group might be already higher educated in coding or mathematical skills. What's the average education level in a web agency? Most perfectly it's a mix of techies and designers, that complement each other. What's the structure in a high percentage of web agencies? My experience says there are lots of poeple that are good in design and they open up a startup and start developing sites around their sense of design. They make decent web sites. They rely mostly on tools or templates and just kick their grafx in. Eventually they know a bit of CSS and HTML. In the little bigger agencies, there is mostly just one CSS guy. So bringing all these features in that actually need some coding or mathematical background, will pass at least 90% of the small to medium web agencies. Lots of enquiries of customers come in here, and they just need to fix their CSS and that's mostly CSS 2 not even CSS 3. So the question is the cost of the advancements. Can the old CSS be still run? Yes, sure. But what will be the cost in performance. I read some time ago, whatever CSS you apply, it will cost you a maximum of 50 milliseconds, if that goes up to 100 milliseconds, fine! Will that stay in this range? The mobile web takes a huge part of the game now and the developement (thank god) is going back to making slim optimised code instead of just throwing in huge chunks of extra code that might even never be used. I think there is a need to keep things simple. Don't misunderstand me, I love the idea to throw variables into CSS, but isn't that a bit too much on the 5% techie side, of course a developer wants to bring in the latest and fanciest features that tickle his coding skills. Keep a simple CSS engine, if you like to add functions and variables, use a pre processor and throw out simple CSS. If you want it complicated use: What are their names, LESS, CHESS, MESS and so on. ;-) I don't think CSS should become an all-in-one device suitable for every purpose (DE: eierlegenden Wollmilchsau). Keep it fast and simple. Stefan
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