alt Hacker NewsThere are a bunch of differences between Figma styles and CSS styles that prevent you from creating a 1:1 mapping: typography inheritance, spacing rules, and variant specificity to name a few.
Like yes, CSS by itself is extremely powerful, but I see no reason why you should feel beholden to use all of its features simply because they're there.
> Sure, sure. except for the inline styles everywhere. And the fact that everything is literally being repeated all over the place. But other than that, no repetition!
Well, instead of repeating inline class names everywhere, you end up with CSS properties repeated everywhere. Not really seeing the difference.
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> Well, instead of repeating inline class names everywhere, you end up with CSS properties repeated everywhere. Not really seeing the difference.
It’s like the difference between
app_name = "Foobar"
print(f"Welcome to {app_name}")
print(f"Learn how to use {app_name}")
print(f"Welcome to Foobar")
print(f"Learn how to use Foobar")
> Well, instead of repeating inline class names everywhere, you end up with CSS properties repeated everywhere. Not really seeing the difference.
Erm...what now? That's so off-the-wall that I can't even wrap my head around your meaning.
Are you trying to argue that because, say, a conventional CSS file has "border:1px" in multiple places, this is somehow equivalent to the Tailwind approach of making a "b1p" class that captures the same thing [1], and plastering it across your templates?
Because a non-abusive application of CSS would actually just put that border property in a semantic class like ".widget" or something, and sure, you'd have multiple "border:1px" declarations across all of your CSS files, but that's irrelevant, because you're not trying to reconstitute every style inline from pseudo-properties.
[1] I am making this example up for illustrative purposes.