a small rectification: it's "CSS Colors Level 4" and not "CSS4" or "CSS4 Colors". CSS4 doesn't exist. It's the color module at Level 4 and it can increase to Level 5, Level 6 and so on but CSS will remain CSS (no CSS3 or CSS4 or CSS5)
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I added a link to the discussion about "CSS4" on CSS-Tricks.com. Of course there is no "CSS4" in the same strict sense that there has never been "MPEG 3" or "Web3" either. But like @ppk and others have suggested, "CSS4" might help to make CSS more popular, I am trying out different publishing techniques, including clickbait headlines and (over)using hashtags.
I agree with you in general, and I recently got quite upset about the so-called "Web3" discussion which inspired @hidde to his excellent post that the web doesn't have version numbers.
"CSS4" might help to make CSS more popular, I am trying out different publishing techniques, including clickbait headlines and (over)using hashtags. --> well, I strongly disagree with this. It won't make CSS popular, it will simply create more confusion especially for new learner. Using "missleading" information for popularity is not a good thing.
New developers reading your article or similar ones will be "Oh, I have to drop CSS3 and start learning CSS4" and this confusion will never end because they will start googling about "CSS4" and all they will get is more confusion between articles saying it doesn't exist and other articles claiming it does. You can even find Job Posts wanting people to have experience in CSS4 which, of course, doesn't make sense.
I cannot talk about the "web3" hype but CSS is different because with CSS we had versions until CSS3 where the versioning system changed and is now applied per module instead of the whole language. We don't have CSS4 but we will have Flexbox 3 and CSS Grid 4, Colors 5, CSS selectors 6 and so on.
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I should make a post "Can I use CSS4 in Web3"? No, just trying to be funny. I changed the title to "more, and more colorful, web colors" like I already did in my original blog post.
We don't have CSS4 but we will have Flexbox 3 and CSS Grid 4, Colors 5, CSS selectors 6 and so on.
As long as it's backward compatible, I will keep promoting the concept of progressive enhancement as one of the best features of CSS as a language, especially compared to --JavaScript-- ECMAScript.
Another buzzword proposal was "CSSnext". Maybe "latest" might also be appropriate.
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Ingo Steinke is a web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
a small rectification: it's "CSS Colors Level 4" and not "CSS4" or "CSS4 Colors". CSS4 doesn't exist. It's the color module at Level 4 and it can increase to Level 5, Level 6 and so on but CSS will remain CSS (no CSS3 or CSS4 or CSS5)
I added a link to the discussion about "CSS4" on CSS-Tricks.com. Of course there is no "CSS4" in the same strict sense that there has never been "MPEG 3" or "Web3" either. But like @ppk and others have suggested, "CSS4" might help to make CSS more popular, I am trying out different publishing techniques, including clickbait headlines and (over)using hashtags.
I agree with you in general, and I recently got quite upset about the so-called "Web3" discussion which inspired @hidde to his excellent post that the web doesn't have version numbers.
"CSS4" might help to make CSS more popular, I am trying out different publishing techniques, including clickbait headlines and (over)using hashtags. --> well, I strongly disagree with this. It won't make CSS popular, it will simply create more confusion especially for new learner. Using "missleading" information for popularity is not a good thing.
New developers reading your article or similar ones will be "Oh, I have to drop CSS3 and start learning CSS4" and this confusion will never end because they will start googling about "CSS4" and all they will get is more confusion between articles saying it doesn't exist and other articles claiming it does. You can even find Job Posts wanting people to have experience in CSS4 which, of course, doesn't make sense.
I cannot talk about the "web3" hype but CSS is different because with CSS we had versions until CSS3 where the versioning system changed and is now applied per module instead of the whole language. We don't have CSS4 but we will have Flexbox 3 and CSS Grid 4, Colors 5, CSS selectors 6 and so on.
I should make a post "Can I use CSS4 in Web3"? No, just trying to be funny. I changed the title to "more, and more colorful, web colors" like I already did in my original blog post.
As long as it's backward compatible, I will keep promoting the concept of progressive enhancement as one of the best features of CSS as a language, especially compared to --JavaScript-- ECMAScript.
Another buzzword proposal was "CSSnext". Maybe "latest" might also be appropriate.
What about "taking colours to the next (CSS) level", clickbaity and truthful all at the same time (my speciality!)
Thanks for the brilliant suggestion! I will translate it to American English and use it as the new title.