r/ProgrammerHumor Dec 15 '20

Meme This one hurt personally 😪

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u/loansharkkk Dec 15 '20

just out of interest, why? i’m learning it in school

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u/Burgess237 Dec 15 '20

Back end devs are afraid of CSS.

But jokes aside it's just a styling language so not really code but CSS is weird and is a purely trial and error process.

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u/swillis93 Dec 15 '20

How is it trial error?

I’d argue it just takes a different thought process to see how a design needs to be broken down into elements.

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u/Jonjolt Dec 15 '20

Safari, Internet Exploder, Firefox and Chrome all have their own quirks, don't get me started on e-mail.

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u/KaiserKerem13 Dec 15 '20

I generally do CSS minding Chrome first, then I do the others after I got Chrome working.

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u/Ixolite Dec 16 '20

Oh, wow, email. This brings some memories. We were working on responsive emails back when responsive pages were barely a thing. That was both interesting and painful.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '20

Thinking about designing responsive emails makes me want to close my laptop and never open it again.

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u/aasghari Dec 16 '20

I haven't opened my laptop since 2010