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These are neat new features, but I don’t know if I would call them “big philosophical things”.

> It feels like we’ve entered this new phase in the life of CSS where just keeping up with what’s shipping each year is too much for any one person to keep track of, let alone take advantage of.

So, basically, CSS has caught up to JavaScript ;-)

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I guess we've gone full circle as CSS replacing JS for hovering on menus was the original cool thing to do with CSS. e.g. https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/

I feel really old, that "pure CSS" still sounds like something to be vaguely proud of << and then I see this website and remember what those menus looked like.

> CSS has caught up to JavaScript ;-)

Google CSS houdini

(Holy Hell)

Is CSS Houdini still alive or is it an ... Actual zombie

CSS Houdini is (I think) still A Thing, but I believe the browser devs have (rightly!) decided to concentrate on fixing more important issues first.

I believe the CSS Painting API[1] is the most advanced of the set? It has shipped in Chrome, behind a flag in Safari, and there's a polyfill[2] that (may/may not) work for unsupported browsers.

But the key issue with Houdini is that it requires JS to be enabled before it can do its magic ...

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Paintin...

[2] - https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/css-paint-polyfill

css has finally become a programming language

Given how css has evolved since the start of my career, CSS will be an AGI by 2030

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