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The fun of "early" websites was the fact you could just read the source of something you thought was neat and then copy and paste it to your own website. Now you also got this nice animation.
Entirely correct. Me bad.-
... by it being on a sample page for the framework - the 'simple shop' samples - I thought the 'widget' was just a placeholder, with an AI generated image, perhaps.-
But, no. It actually exists.-
Some more discussion in 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35708613
Learning someone else's CSS file as if it's another technology is a questionable fun.
Granted, this is for my own small static sites, and I’ll still use Tailwind though I disagree with its philosophy, just because it’s good for prototyping (and then it sticks around) or is the basis for some other small theme I want to build on (like DaisyUI).
There are also interesting patterns that can be learned from and adapted to your own code. PicoCSS[1] had a new release recently and there's some really interesting stuff in there. The biggest standout to me is how forms are handled and leverage semantic HTML ideas to automatically add form validation styles.
Anyway, they make relatively few compromises on semanticity, and as a result, they can deliver a very polished-looking final product with more features than a purely semantic framework could deliver.
Again, I love it, just sometimes, you have to hold your nose a bit.
I've definitely learned a few interesting tricks poking around in their CSS though. I've been coding professionally for 15 years and doing mostly web for around 6 years. I'm always interested to see these minimal frameworks popping up, I feel like I learn at least a few nest tricks from each.