I'm excited about the recent work on CSS (particular Houdini). I haven't felt like this since I got a book of IE 5.5 features. Don't get me wrong -- CSS has gotten a lot of new features over the last 14 years, but they've been like basic things you kind of expect in a style framework, like new layout options or variables.
But IE devs were unhinged. You could build JS code as a module and attach it to elements using CSS.
Finally we're getting those kind of unhinged features again.
Yeah. It causally allowed you to extend the CSS engine in a simplistic way, like what Houdini allows you to do. Houdini is likely way more performant though and substantially way more fleshed out.
But IE devs were unhinged. You could build JS code as a module and attach it to elements using CSS.
Finally we're getting those kind of unhinged features again.
e.g. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/houdini