Michael Gale @miclgael@hachyderm.io
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I feel that " is purely terrible and should be obliterated from the planet because modern is enough" crowd often miss the role it plays in dictating the weight of importance for new features that flow into native and .

Its right there in chapter four of "HTML5 for Web Designers" (Jeremy Keith)

Developers hack together a solution with and eventually browser vendors go "oh snap, yeah, maybe we *could* just have CSS for popular thing" and out it comes.

You can't have amazing CSS without browser vendors understanding what is important for developers. Its a lovely, beautiful feedback loop.

Screen cap of HTML5 for web designers - with the text highlighted: This is a recurring trend. If a pattern is popular enough, it will almost certainly evolve from requiring a scripted solution to something more declarative. That’s why CSS3 introduces even more animation capabilities that previously required JavaScript.
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