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adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:
Choosing an existing #CSS version as base for the #smolweb is complicated 🤔
CSS Mobile Profile 1.0 seems to be a good candidate. It is a subset of CSS 2.1.
It excludes rather than changing existing properties:
No positioning (position: absolute/relative/fixed) - avoided complex layout calculations
No advanced selectors (:hover, :focus, attribute selectors) - reduced parsing overhead
No table layout properties - simplified rendering
No generated content (:before, :after) - reduced memory usage
However, it is difficult to conform this CSS profile for a beautiful website.
Also looking at CSS Mobile Profile 2.0, it's significantly more complex than 1.0 and includes features that may conflict with smolweb goals of lightweight, computationally-efficient CSS.
Other option is to open smolweb to the whole CSS 2.1 (or 2.2) profile.
In all case, a smolweb site must be browsable with disabled styles (inline style blocks and linked CSS)
https://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-css-mobile-20001013
https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-css-mobile-20141014/
Which version is the most adapted to the smolweb ?