Old CSS, New CSS

Wow, that took me back. Small nitpick, XHTML does live on in one important place: epub, which is the most commonly used file type for ebooks. I do a lot of epub work at Standard Ebooks, and at first I hated XHTML for the exact reason the article describes: A single tiny error makes the entire document invalid and it can be hard to spot it and recover. Also, namespaces were (and still are) a massive pain for little to…

I wouldn't be surprised if this ended with a smirky one-liner presented in a popular CSS framework, making a full circle from (early HTML): <H1><FONT COLOR=red>...</FONT></H1> to (Tailwind CSS) <h1 class="text-red-500">...</h1> I totally acknowledge the accomplishments that the Web standards and their implementations have made since the early days. On the other hand, while I am no Tailwind proponent, for many applications "worse is good" and Tailwind is a bridge to the straightforward beginnings of the web design.

Fast forward a few years and > <H1><FONT COLOR=red>...</FONT></H1> …every single goddamn time. is in fashion again! Only now it’s called class="text-red-500" :o)