@rijk@heydon The audience for Tailwind might be willing to come along if someone really nailed a "classless CSS" library (just use the right elements and it makes it look nice!) Have seen a few attempts but never a really good one.
Multiple people have said I'm mischaracterising Tailwind and the @apply rule, so I've added this for clarification. You're still not going to like it, though.
@stvfrnzl@heydon Would anyone like to invest in a complicated customisable CSS reset and pattern library I’m thinking of developing. Working title: Hindgust
@heydon I think too many people (who skew more coder than designer) have developed an allergy to CSS because "oh no, I added one line to .btn and it broke the other buttons" and similar my-first-usecases.
The answer, and maybe CSS people don't want to hear it, is to tell people that inline styles are OK. Really it's OK. Don't worry. It's better than Tailwind anyway.
@heydon I was scrolling through that long code block in your (quoted from Tero’s) post when it finally hit me: Tailwind reminds me of nothing so much as a mostly-successful attempt to recreate MS Word’s “Export to HTML” source code patterns.
@jmcs@heydon It does allow responsive inline styles which can be handy but that's pretty much the only improvement IMHO. The new CSS scoping mechanism could be a good native solution too.
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