- Author also has a blog post describing why he created this project and a high overview of what's happening behind the scenes
- This is very cool. I have no idea how this one work. I'm guessing most of the magic is in the box shadow?
- Same
I don't understand how so few lines can produce so much different things.
And clicking on the background will just create a new random (?) background!
It seems that the aliases are doing a lot of work
- The aliases we're tripping me up! I almost understand it now. Not sure what the @lp is doing
- As an aside but still relevant question, why is CSS preferred over JS when these days it can do lots of things like JavaScript and probably uses similar resources.
- CSS and JavaScript specialize in two very different areas and are commonly used in tandem
- You can do layouts with javascript?
Couldn't imagine ever wanting skip grid and flexbox for whatever has been concocted up for JS.
- multi-window interfaces in the browser... simulating a desktop, or other user navigable environment such as in a game or simulation, where a user my want to customize their environment beyond a grid snap.
- 1. This isn’t CSS. It’s a declarative JS drawing framework with CSS flavor to the syntax
2. Without actual CSS JavaScript wouldn’t be of much use for drawing much of anything unless you were just going to use canvasses and forego the DOM entirely
- Man, CSS looks absolutely nothing like it did when I started out. lol
