Eric Meyer recently posted an update to his CSS reset file, and that plus other commentaries I’ve been reading made me ask the obvious question: Why?
I know the logic behind it, I’m just not sure I buy into it wholeheartedly. Why add yet another file, yet another http request to the pages? I’m serious. I don’t see the reason.
Been processing some thoughts about CSS files and workstyles, and I think they’re about to bubble up and out. They’re still a bit inchoate (nice word, that; I learned it from a comic book back in my adolescence, so take that you literature snobs!) but I generally need to type them out in order to clarify them in my own mind, much less communicate them to anyone else.
But I think the pot has been simmering long enough.
Managed to clear most of the table cruft out of 1.5, only the content component to go. That one will be non-trivial but possible, nonetheless. I’ve been wrestling with a view other ideas along the way.
The first is a question born out of frustration: Why do I have to do this? The Joomla developers built in a way to remove tables from some of the pieces, and then created an override capability so someone like me can do the rest without having to hack the core. OK, but since they clearly know this is desirable (this is derived from the fact that most of the pieces have a simple argument on the load call to eliminate the tables) why haven’t they gone whole hog with it, and provided that capability built-in, rather that force me to provide it myself?
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