Jason Knight
2 min readOct 30, 2022

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Methinks we have a different defintion of "great", but that goes hand in hand with getting suckered by the presentational markup mindset and halfwitted incompetent TRASH like Failwind!

Failwind is a monument to "screw non-screen users, lets shove our craniums up 1997's rectum" by recreating EVERYTHING that was wrong with HTML 3 using classes instead of tags. The "screen only" mentality being on full display with all the classes saying screen layout, when the halfwits, morons, and fools using -- and even those who created -- tailwind and its ilk don't even bother using the media attribute on their stylesheet link -- basically either screwing over or just wasting the time of print, speech, braille, and search... whilst taking a steaming dump on bandwidth, caching models, and server-side complexity!

And for what, "wah wah eye dunz wunna lurns tu maintains uh exturmal styleshit?"

If you are choosing any of your markup to say what things look like, you have utterly, totally, and completely failed to grasp the most basic concepts of what HTML is even for. You might as well admit defeat, pretend 4 Strict and CSS don't even exist, and go back to writing <font> and <center> tags, deprecated attributes like color, bgcolor, align, and border, and using tables for layout. THAT is how far back incomptent chazerei like failwind drags markup practices!

And why the people who promote the use of such idiocy are nothing more than snake oil peddlers, those creating such systems not knowing enough HTML to even flap their yap about it, much less have the unmitigated gall to tell others how to do so!

For people who know nothing about HTML, by people who know nothing about HTML is no recipe for success!

https://medium.com/codex/stop-fighting-the-reason-css-exists-with-these-dumbass-frameworks-91732f5993c7

https://medium.com/codex/why-are-front-end-framework-makers-illiterate-and-utterly-ignorant-of-html-and-css-5d4ba515163c

There are zero real benefits to the f***wittery that is failwind or any other "let's use classes to say what things look like" that isn't a bald faced LIE.

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Jason Knight
Jason Knight

Written by Jason Knight

Accessibility and Efficiency Consultant, Web Developer, Musician, and just general pain in the arse

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