There’s a great article on the potential difficulties facing us CSS advocates in the coming years over on Digital Web Magazine.
After about ten minutes, Eustace is cursing softly under his breath: what should have been a simple find-and-replace has turned into a tedious editing job. Rorshach’s style sheets total nearly three thousand lines of code—and by now, Eustace is all too aware of how many different developers currently maintain them. His find-and-replace dreams were quashed by more methods of color notation than he’d care to think about: some of the application’s developers prefer to write
#003366in its entirety; others are fans of the terse#036; a few sadistic souls apparently ditched hex notation altogether, and opted forrgb(0, 102, 153). And by the time he got to this:
.classOne {
color: #003366;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
.classTwo {
color: #CC0000;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
.classThree {
color: #006633;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}…well, it’s enough to make a junior developer run home, close all the drapes, and have a good cry while listening to Depeche Mode in the dark.
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