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234 points stevenpotts | 1 comments | 06 May 25 03:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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oneeyedpigeon ◴[06 May 25 09:05 UTC] No.43903048[source]▶
Feels like premature optimisation to me. Are there really cases where the CSS is so complex or the page loads so many resources that this effort is worthwhile? Maybe with the most complex web apps, I guess, but for almost all cases, I would have thought writing clean CSS, HTML, and JavaScript would render this unnecessary or even counterproductive.
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1. dan-bailey ◴[06 May 25 12:54 UTC] No.43904549[source]▶
Oh my god, yes, this is useful. I do some freelance dev work for a small marketing agency, and I inherit a lot of Wordpress sites that show all the hallmarks of passing through multiple developers/agencies over the years, and the CSS and Javascript are *always* crufty with years of accumulated bad practices. I'm eager to try this.