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2026-07-06,
of styles and organization

Hairy Vetchling, Monday, 6 July 12026 HE
2026-07-06 | 26G06 | 2026-187 | 2461228
2026-W28-1 | Q3 | Estate

today

one of the trends of early web design (back when people were still hand-writing their web-pages) was “atomic CSS” (a phrase which later became co-opted by Yahoo and Thierry Koblentz to for something completely different) – but early atomic CSS was the idea of separating, re-organizing, and grouping your CSS rules by domain – one area for declaring all your color rules, one area for all your font rules, one area for all your padding, border, and margin rules – an idea that was almost immediately thrown out the window as soon as compiled and generated CSS arrived on the scene – if you didn’t have to look at it, you didn’t care how it was organized