Re: [whatwg] Standards growth and complexity

2015-06-03 Thread Ashley Gullen
Adding is often the only technically sensible solution. For example if the default CSS box model was changed, a vast amount of existing content on the web that relies on it working the way it already does would be broken. So new models are added instead, like flexbox, which solves a great many

Re: [whatwg] Standards growth and complexity

2015-06-02 Thread Lewis Dexter Litanzios / ldexterldesign
Hey, Philosophically speaking, it's probably a western thing - we're all obsessed with growth ~ https://twitter.com/ldexterldesign/status/49491587917629 Regards On 18/05/2015 18:57, Jens Oliver Meiert wrote: A few concerns about the growth of HTML c.:

Re: [whatwg] Standards growth and complexity

2015-05-18 Thread Jens Oliver Meiert
A few concerns about the growth of HTML c.: http://meiert.com/en/blog/20150518/fing-up-standards/. Personally I’ve been concerned about this for some time—from my view common HTML and CSS code gets worse by the hour, with problems typically being addressed by what caused them in the first place: