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David Clark
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David Clark's personal blog at davidtheclark.com covers programming and web. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Role of Utility Classes in Scalable CSS”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Clark's post on utility classes in CSS, which use !important and can be applied directly in markup. The linked post is cited as support for a point about whether that practice is a misuse.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
David Clark is a web developer and this is where he writes about developing the web.
Most-linked posts?
- The Role of Utility Classes in Scalable CSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-14
- It’s Time for Everyone to Learn About PostCSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-16
What Hacker News says?
One can argue if it’s a misuse or not. It’s quite handy to have such utility classes that rely on !important and can be used in markup directly. I have plenty of those in my stylesheets. [1] http://davidtheclark.com/on-utility-classes/
Comment linking /on-utility-classes/
on “Google recommends inlining small CSS”Submitted It’s Time for Everyone to Learn About PostCSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Time for Everyone to Learn About PostCSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Role of Utility Classes in Scalable CSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussion