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Versus the bullshit we have to put up from the other vendors who throw out new features which everyone else has to pick up via peer pressure even though they are poorly designed?


If you're using advanced features because of peer-pressure, then more fool you.

If you're using advanced features because you've found a use for them, but you're not using SASS and mixins (or similar), then again, more fool you

The other vendors are actually churning out progress and the burden or integrating that progress into your work is entirely optional. Microsoft can't even implement years old specs, and the burden associated with their inability to create even a bog basic browser is not optional.


Which says the whole thing is a broken mess...


The specs or the new features?


The worst part for me is having four friggin' variations of the same rule, quadrupling my loc, and making a mess of the tidiness of it all.


This does get ridiculous. Making a simple one page site that uses many new CSS3 features gets out of control. I've switched to Sass/Compass and haven't looked back.


Yeah, I was just thinking that. It might be time to use a framework where I only have to type it once, and where it only displays one line of styling.


Yes, new (or more importantly, useful) features are one of the best ways of growth. If they are poorly designed, that's another story :)




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