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Over the last 2 years I’ve gone from “CSS is a nightmare of unintuitive incantations” to “CSS is one of my favourite technologies.” I still don’t feel like I understand it as well as I’d like, but I’m so much more comfortable and feel so much less lost using it.

Until about 2012 I really *knew* css, but then flexbox and grid happed, along with other new stuff. Life got busy. And I felt like I didn't know it any more. But I the last few years I feel like I'm back on it, I know flexbox now, and loving that it's caught up with SASS with nested selectors/rules.

A couple of years ago, as a reaction to tailwind, I wrote a tiny js lib for extracting nested inline css from a html attribute. It was a lot of fun to make, the "un-nest" plugin is only 982 bytes. That experiment went nowhere, but point is that un-nesting css is quite easy github.com/samwillis/x-...

Should be able to run a PostCSS plugin over it for polyfill, surely? You can’t hold everything back for one obscure browser edge case…

I’m happier to wait than introduce any complexity into my JS build.

*CSS build. Today I literally ship a vanilla CSS file and I like it that way.