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CSS: The Pain Is Real

6/19/2025Updated 9/9/2025

Excerpt

Thesis: Proponents of utility CSS * (presentational HTML) have never performed a CSS-only redesign †. One could be tempted now to try to state the opposite for proponents of strict separation of concerns between structure, presentation, and behavior—but they haven’t usually, either.

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