Tonio LoewaldSome seriously annoying CSS work led me to doing a brain dump on my current thoughts on CSS, for what they're worth…
https://loewald.com/blog/2023/12/css-is-great-but-its-often-not-obvious/
Welp, having spun two small Typescript libraries off of #xinjs and build a tiny one from scratch, and published them to npm, in the last few days—all using #parceljs—I finally felt I had facepalmed enough times to switch #xinjs over to building dist/ and cdn/ targets with parceljs. I guess I'll find out tomorrow if I've blown anything up.
Who knew #lycos was still a thing?
I still remember it as the first search engine that didn’t completely suck :)
Now you need to maintain all that crap AND document it. And now your component will is yet another platform abstraction layer. And yes it’s a leaky abstraction layer.
In the end I couldn’t find a single benefit of <sl-input> over writing:
label(
span(caption),
input()
)
And addling global CSS powered by css-variables to style it.
One of the things I love about having a bunch of libraries I’m working on in my spare time is that I get to do more exploratory coding which is a nice balance to just solving the problem in front of me.
Having built a form component with #shoelace.style and #xinjs I ended up ripping out the shoelace.style components and reimplementing the form with plain HTML in two successively cleaner and simpler ways…