[simonlc]

I don't know of it's a joke tweet, or a pompous person trying to make other devs feel inferior.

The example or use case they describe doesn't even make sense to me. Nor does it even seem to line up with how CSS specificity or cascade works.

"Here's a paper to write on, oh wait why are you drawing, this is a writing paper, you're doing it wrong!"

[throwawaylala1]

> or a pompous person trying to make other devs feel inferior

This is how I felt reading it as well. IMO Steven should exercise a little humility.

It was bad design on his team's part. How is anyone supposed to know that there was only one super secret reason for "!important" to exist? Why not call it something like "!break-cascade-override"? They put an emphasize on making the language look "clean" over real world usability and this is the outcome.

[yreg]

How is a legal requirement different to a business requirement? Both need to be satisfied.

[ehsankia]

But not satisfying one may cost a lot more than the other, especially if it's a small difference that's small to catch visually.