Tailwind vs Semantic CSS
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Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.

This study compares two websites with similar design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS.

  • @[email protected]English
    -1•8 months ago

    But plain CSS is proper CSS. Tailwind is training wheels for people who don’t want to learn CSS.

    • Lemminary
      5•8 months ago

      That is not true. You do need to know CSS to make proper use of Tailwind for anything beyond changing colors and padding. That’s the reason why the Intellisense VS Code extension gives the underlying CSS on hover. I’d love to see a newbie try content layout knowing nothing but Tailwind.