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Trendy hues, Broken views

Aleksandr FlawristAleksandr Flawrist6 appsUpdated
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A showcase of web services embracing boutique fads over baseline utility. They force the new OKLCH color space without a classic HEX fallback, breaking on browsers just a few years old. All for the pure engineering myopia of chasing wide-gamut shades that mainstream sRGB screens can't even deliver. Think of school labs, public libraries, policy-locked enterprise boxes, refurbished PCs — and users sick of the upgrade hamster wheel. Here, CSS, once a veneer over the content, decays into an elitist gatekeeper that segregates human beings into first-class and forgotten.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web where information came first and machines came second. For decades, progressive enhancement kept it that way, ensuring the new did not break the old. Then Adam Wathan brought Tailwind CSS, pioneering the erosion that others now mistake for progress. Whenever possible, I drop a line to such developers, detailing the compatibility debt baked into their code — only to watch how mantras of empathy, inclusivity, and problem-solving vanish straight into the void.

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