{"id":10410,"date":"2026-07-14T20:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/?p=10410"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:54:16","slug":"fixcss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/fixcss\/","title":{"rendered":"FixCSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.csswg.org\/ideas\/mistakes\/\">There is a famous document<\/a> from the CSS Working Group that lists the historical mistakes in the design of CSS. It contains stuff like how <code>box-sizing: border-box;<\/code> should have been the default, which is why a lot of us still <a href=\"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/the-coyier-css-starter\/\">put that in starter stylesheets<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Declan Chidlow took a step I&#8217;ve never seen anyone take before in <a href=\"https:\/\/vale.rocks\/micros\/20260701-0400\">making a library to fix the mistakes<\/a>. A &#8220;novelty&#8221; they call it, which&#8230; yes. Users probably shouldn&#8217;t be paying a runtime cost for this stuff; we should just work around it as we have since forever. But it&#8217;s a hilarious idea taken all the way home. Plus, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tangled.org\/vale.rocks\/FixCSS\">on Tangled<\/a>, so it might be an excuse to figure out how the heck all that works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a famous document from the CSS Working Group that lists the historical mistakes in the design of CSS. It contains stuff like how box-sizing: border-box; should have been the default, which is why a lot of us still put that in starter stylesheets. Declan Chidlow took a step I&#8217;ve never seen anyone take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-10410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-css"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pexels-photo-220639.jpeg?fit=1733%2C1300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10413,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410\/revisions\/10413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}