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Couple of anomalies in sanitize.css

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Saturday April 20 2024

I've been working on my roll-your-own CSS Framework project and found a few anomalies with unexpected results from my normalize (I use "sanitize.css"). I'm not sure what line they are on (I usually post that) because I've edited the header to indicate changes. I'll post information to identify the...

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Is a CSS Framework needed in 2024?

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Saturday April 20 2024

I put that question into a Google search. Well, partial. My question was actually "Is a CSS Framework really necessary". Some of the hits were answers that I wasn't expecting at all. Let me point out that I am pretty much retired. I am not peering forward at a career or considering direction....

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A bit of CSS history

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Friday April 19 2024

The first Cascading Style Sheet specification (CSS v1) was launched in 1996. The first browser to use CSS was Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). It was not full support, only very limited. It did break the dam wide open. CSS v1 was one of the initial projects of the W3C Consortium founded in 1995....

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SASS makes me, well sassy ...

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Thursday April 18 2024

Always admired those that use SASS. SASS is a pre-processor. Sort of a scripting language that provides access to features not commonly available in CSS. You can use mixins, variables, nested rules, imports, and built-in functions. I've resisted using SASS. I've seen some of the CSS generated via...

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Semantic HTML ... rethink CSS

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Wednesday April 17 2024

After much research and inspecting the code from various CSS frameworks, including so-called "class-less", I have come to some conclusions – that are meaningful to me. MIght be meaningful to some others and that's the purpose of documenting this. There is no shortage of CSS frameworks and of all...

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FontAwesome: interesting to note

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Tuesday April 16 2024

The amount of mis-information about FontAwesome is incredible. One of their competitors even claims FontAwesome version 4.7 is designed at 14px and any size above that will appear fuzzy. What a load of garbage. One of the reasons to use FontAwesome is that it is a FONT ... that means it can be...

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What do you get when ...

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Tuesday April 16 2024

I've had an opportunity over the past few years to look closely at various CSS Frameworks. With the extra scrutiny these past few weeks, I've noticed there is a lot of duplication in the css code. Different class names, but useless duplication. To illustrate, I took the grid system from one CSS...

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Simple CSS ... SimpleCSS Framework

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Monday April 15 2024

I have posted nearly every day for the past few weeks, mainly with rants about bloated CSS Frameworks. The CSS Framework I have been using until recently is Bulma CSS Framework. As of 21 March 2024, it has the distinction of being the largest file size CSS Framework used via a CDN. At 713Kb, it is...

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Another Flexbox based CSS Framework?

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Sunday April 14 2024

I've been researching switching from Bulma to Bootstrap. Why? Well, you simply can't ignore that the path Bulma is on with v1.0.0 is contra-indicated for mobile sites. Gheez, v1.0.0 is now 713Kb from a cdn source. And you still need javascript, adding to the problem. Using Bulma v1.0.0 is like...

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CSS Frameworks and javascript

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Saturday April 13 2024

Bulma CSS Framework has several elements, components, or utilities that require javascript to implement the functionality expected. I always use the example of the burger menu. On most of the Bulma example templates, if you shrink the view of the website, the standard "three-line" burger menu will...

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