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Karawebnetwork | 6 months ago

Reminds me of CSS Zen Garden and its 221 themes: https://csszengarden.com/

e.g. https://csszengarden.com/221/ https://csszengarden.com/214/ https://csszengarden.com/123/

See all: https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/

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cxr|6 months ago

Only somewhat related and unfortunately misses the point.

CSS Zen Garden was powered by style sheets as they were designed to be used. Want to offer a different look? Write an alternative style sheet. This site doesn't do that. It compiles everything to a big CSS blob and then uses JS (which for some reason is also compiled to a blob, despite consisting of a grand total of 325 SLOC before being fed into bundler) to insert/remove stuff from the page and fiddle with a "data-theme" attribute on the html element.

Kind of a bummer since clicking through to the author's Mastodon profile shows a bunch of love for stuff like a talk about "Un-Sass'ing my CSS" and people advocating others "remove JS by pointing them to a modern CSS solution". (For comparison: Firefox's page style switcher and the DOM APIs it depends on[1] are older than Firefox itself. The spec[1] was made a recommendation in November 2000.)

1. <https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-87355129>)

reactordev|6 months ago

I fault her static site builder and not the author for that. It’s just how her bundler bundles.