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by RKearney 5274 days ago
Why do people keep calling things "pure CSS" when they use JavaScript and HTML?
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endianswap 5274 days ago
It seems like a more accurate term for these demonstrations would be "imageless" rather than "pure CSS".
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baddox 5274 days ago
I think HTML obviously is allowed to call something "pure CSS," since an HTML document is required to even load CSS, and CSS rules can only apply to DOM elements. JavaScript, however, shouldn't be allowed.
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RKearney 5274 days ago
You could do it with XML and XSLT.
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lojack 5274 days ago
XSLT is typically used to translate XML into HTML. Sure, you could use CSS to style XML, but I believe the point isn't to argue the semantics of the markup, only to say that some sort of markup is required in order to use CSS.
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baddox 5274 days ago
Okay. Let's just say "markup language."
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