Respect and requests

[gandhiShepard]

First (respect) : This is an awesome list. I've been referring to everything on this list for years. Thanks for organizing this on one place.

Second (request) : This is more of a conversation starter than a request, but what do you think about having a "Beta" section. This repo might not be the place for it, but I think that there is some value to looking into the experimental/arguable stuff. For example, I came across AMCSS Introducing AM - Attribute Modules for CSS. I think that it's has been proven to be less performant, but the buzz around determining it's scalability was awesome. AMCSS Performance Discussion

Here's another: DocCSSa

I agree with all of the resources you have listed whole heartedly. I'm also gleaning a lot of information looking into the controversial and beta stuff too.

I'm not trying to change things up, just wondering if a beta section would be a good idea.

Stay awesome!
Best regards,

Ben

[davidtheclark]

Thanks!

I'm worried the "Beta" idea would be a rabbit hole and make the reading list too large. I still think there's plenty of arguable stuff and different opinions in the referenced articles ---- I'm not trying to display a consensus, really.

AMCSS, though, I don't think is about scalable CSS so much as cleaner HTML. I decided not to include it here: #3.

DocCSSa might fit in. But I'm wondering what it uniquely adds. What do you think?

[gandhiShepard]

I'm not going to argue with the Rabbit Hole analogy. I agree with that assessment.

I know that AMCSS promoted itself to be scalable. However, it has proven to have slower performance. But then again, jQuery is less performant than vanilla JS. I just like the creative effort to find a way to make the task of writing CSS manageable. Performance and scaleability aside, I thought it was clever.

I'll leave it up to you about including DocCSSa. I think that it works for app development, but not so much for lower level stuff. It also requires some serious Sass skills. The whole deferred concept is pretty cool. I picked up some clever techniques from both of these approaches.

Here's a great read that kind weighs in on some of this stuff.

• The Role of Utility Classes in Scalable CSS

Thanks for the conversation and consideration. Have a great weekend.
Stay awesome!

[davidtheclark]

I'll have to read more of the DocCSSa stuff. I'm not sure I gleaned the deferred concept on a quick look.

I of course think that Role of Utility Classes... article is ok --- but I wrote it. Feel a little weird about putting my own article on here.

[gandhiShepard]

Haha! That's so funny! I should have checked the author! Haha! Good lord. Regardless, it's a great article. I'm just gonna shut up now.