Comment by avmich 6 hours ago
I wonder when we'll get hexagonal lanes, triangular and Penrose tiling. Rest assured, there will be practically infinite set of features designers would invent. Language designers would do good takubg into account Scheme idea: language is good when there is nothing to remove.
I think you don’t need new CSS features to put AI generated content in jumbotron.
I dislike the idea that CSS should be made more complex. Everyone is doing the same template with Jumbotron anyway.
Pick the colors, pick imagery and name for the brand - doing some magic with CSS will only piss off people.
Cookie cutter design is what I like. I can compare the companies when they all have the same template for a website.
That’s a very engineer thing to say. Most people are definitely different from you, and that’s why CSS is increasing in scope.
Also, if everyone is implementing the same Jumbotron design again anyway, why not standardise that and support it right away instead? That’s how we got a bunch of features recently, like dialogs, popovers, or page transitions. And it’s for the better, I think.
>And it’s for the better, I think
A strong reason to use llms today is accessing plain text information without needing to interface with someone else stupid css. You really think the general sentiment around css is: yay things are improving?
another strong reason to use llms: no needing to write css anymore.
> Cookie cutter design is what I like. I can compare the companies when they all have the same template for a website.
Any reference?
Also I do feel like some people prefer animations. Maybe not the Hackernews crowd itself per se. But I think that having two options (or heck three the third one being really just pure html just text no styling maybe some simple markdown) is something good in my opinion.
Honestly I do feel like 1-2 animations are okay with a website but the award winning websites really over spam it in my opinion
I think maybe the amount of animations in https://css-tricks.com might be nice given that those guys/website teaches other people about animation themselves and have only 1 maybe 2 animations that I can observe interacting with their website and I do feel like that's for good reason (they don't want animations to be too distracting)
I personally don't know, I personally have never built any such websites but recently wanted to and I was looking at gsap tuturials on today & I do feel like one of the frustrations I feel is that these animations don't respect the browser sometimes to have animations (Scroll animations being the first one) but I even watched some designers talk about how much important scroll animations are (them betting that every award winning website has scroll animations)
Even https://ycombinator.com has a lots of animations & Css features & people on HN did love it from what I could tell. So to me, it does feel as if there is no one size fits all.
>it’s a negotiation between browser engineers
curious how this works, huh.
seems like the same institutions starving to push browser updates are also authoring standards.
>who need to keep things fast and responsive reality says otherwise. but they definitely need to push updates.
I think the plan going forward is to allow people to implement their own CSS layout primitives using Houdini, but I haven't kept track of how it has evolved or progressed.
But css is not a “programming language” it’s a negotiation between browser engineers (who need to keep things fast and responsive) and web devs (who need to implement a fashionable design that is still distinguising for their brand)