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The Web without CSS. ๐Ÿ˜ฟ

Vaibhav Khulbe on August 21, 2020

If you can, then imagine a world where there is no styling in websites. It's close to impossible, right? Being in the frontend industry for quite ...
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Alvaro Montoro

Funny thing is that if you had run the same experiment in sites from the 90s/early 2000s, in many cases there wouldn't have been much difference between the with- and without-CSS versions.

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Ahah, yes!

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Shane McGowan

CSS is bloat, it should be deprecated

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Matthew Alicea

What's the alternative?

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Shane McGowan

No CSS

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Matthew Alicea

Without CSS we'd have very limited UX potential; I think people would have a much harder time interacting with the web. Surely we could do better than my screenshot if we intended to not use CSS, but it seems like we'd be better off using a tool rather than no tool.

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Matthew Alicea • Edited

I actually couldn't find the attachment button without CSS lmao.
Dev comment reply without CSS

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Mike Blais

I not sure how good it works but Firefox has a add-on call Remove CSS from websites

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Shane McGowan

Combine that with disable JavaScript and our page load speeds will be world class!

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Aayushi Sharma

CSS is like soul to a website. It's impossible imagine a modern site without It.

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Absolutely!

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Peyton McGinnis

Interesting! I feel like you also should have discussed how this affects accessibility issues. Terminal browsers and other disability software don't always recognize CSS very well, so I feel like knowing how your site looks without any styling and pure structure could be valuable. This also shows the importance of using the proper HTML tag for each section of your content.

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Vaibhav Khulbe • Edited

Absolutely! Accessibility is really important. But I think this it's rightly addressed in this MDN article:

CSS and JavaScript accessibility best practices.

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Mike Blais

One big problem with me is the stupid scrollbars. I hate the newer scrollbars.

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Dhirodatto Biswas

The wikipedia looks more informative without css.

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Madza

someone should make a site (or an extension) where you can enter the URL, press no-CSS and the stripped-down version appears.. could also include some site recommendations from Alexa500, so we do not need to remember all the most popular sites... could be a fun tool to play around ๐Ÿ‘Œ

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Looks like a really solid project to work on! Thanks for the recommendation!

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Stefanie Fluin

Super interesting! I think it's also nice to see how the content is laid out and the pure skeleton framework before all the CSS gets added.

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Yes, it's so good to see CSS in action!

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Swastika Yadav

Wait! What just happened? I'm still processing๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ™„

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Everything but nothing!

Confused GIF

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Louis Low

A web without CSS, also mean I never existed.

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Mike Blais

Wikipedia doesn't use CSS. IMDB, Yelp, the new Facebook, the new Twitter, and Outlook does use CSS. You can use Fandom with and without CSS. I can live without CSS.

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yellow1912

Some people can live without markup, and it's okie. I dare you to take it away though, half of the world may want to kill you lol.

Accessibility is great, but people also love beautiful things, the world would be so boring otherwise.

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jimvadams

no it look ugly.