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What the CSS?

5 points| degif | 9 years ago |medium.com | reply

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[+] SpacePotatoe|9 years ago|reply
Aside from this article, why css as a whole is such a unmenagable mess? The whole frontend "separation of concerns" is fucking stupid: data - html, look at any modern website - you see div soup holding no data, css - try making some runtime customizabily eg. change color, layout on ie11, js - contrary to popular opinion, js does what it should do :p

Maybe it was holding water when all pages was as complex as hacker news but currently we need something which is little more sensible

[+] jamescostian|9 years ago|reply
I'm immensely confused by this: `It's totally ok to write class="75%" if you define it as .\35 0\%{} in CSS.` How is this:

    .\35 0\%{}
turned into "75%"? It looks more like it would turn into "50%". Why is there a space after the 5 (wouldn't that mean you're finished talking about the class and have moved on to explaining a descendent element?) and what does \3 mean?
[+] gvb|9 years ago|reply
This explains CSS escaping pretty well: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-escapes

\37 is the escaped hexadecimal number 0x37 == the ASCII character '7'

The whitespace after the escaped character is "eaten" (the whitespace indicates the end of the escape sequence)

0 is '0'

\% is '%'

(update: fixed \37 == '7')