Tailwind vs Semantic CSS
nuejs.org
Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.

This study compares two websites with similar design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS.

  • modeler@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Their arguments included the size of the web page, and the time to display the first content, both of which were significantly better in Nue when compared to Tailwind.

    By all means argue on what is important (because what is important for your projects may be significantly different from mine), but there were many points that the author was highlighting, not just the separation of concerns. And for my projects, all these concerns are important.