Jason Knight
2 min readMar 20, 2021

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Tailind, hooah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Sing it again.

Nothing like pissing on the markup with dozens of presentational classes, ignoring media targets and the entire reason CSS exists entirely, and in the process recreating EVERYTHING wrong with HTML 3.2.

<div class="items-center bg-white text-green-400">

Being as utterly mind-numbingly broken and dumbass as:

<center bgcolor="white"><font color="green">

At that point, admit defeat, and go back to writing transitional markup with all those tables for layout, presentational tags, presentational attributes, and other long deprecated garbage practices of the 1990's.

What with the "transitional" in "HTML 4 Transitional" literally meaning "in transition from 1997 to 1998 methodologies". And that's all mind-numbingly dumbass RUBBISH like Tailwind is.

Oh look, we'll piss on caching models, vomiting up two to ten times the markup needed to do the job, with ZERO concern for anything other than screen media,, pitching in the bin 20+ years of progress... because "I'm too stupid to use CSS properly". And all because some know-nothing created a framework because "wah wah, eye dunz lyke gud praktizes."

It's all made of just so much /FAIL/. Learn HTML, Learn CSS, and if you aren't horrified by what Tailwind encourages, go back and learn them again, and again, and again until you are! Because the ONLY way you can see merit in idiocy like Tailwind, Bootcrap, W3.CSS, etc, etc, is to be utterly devoid of knowing what semantic markup is, what CSS even exists for, and how ANY of this stuff is supposed to work.

Would you like to know more?

https://medium.com/codex/why-presentational-classes-for-html-css-are-ignorant-garbage-bcfdb02ec397

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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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