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My friends: do we need tailwind as soon as Safari 17.4 is out? Chrome has @scope already available and safari soon. With @scope we don’t need utility frameworks at all and can make use of scoped css with css variables for unification. What do you think?

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Hasn't FireFox been dragging their asses on @scope? https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/472

It took years to just convince them of the need for it. And I'm not sure anyone got convinced vs Chrome had already shipped it and Safari has it planned so they caved in. The most recent update I'm aware of is that it's "worth prototyping".

Hard to believe FireFox used to be a leader of the modern web.

I mean, there are the millions upon millions of devices that don’t run up to date safari versions. While @scope is awesome, the reality is that preprocessed nesting is super easy to use now and to rip out later. You’re only hurting users (likely poorer, less tech savvy ones) by jumping ship immediately.

In 2026, sure! Go nuts and rip it all out, but give people a bit to update first unless your target market is SF tech influencers.

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