Widely used CSS features to remove

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YAML config files for the Devographics surveys

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Widely used CSS features to remove #37

Open LeaVerou opened 1 year ago

LeaVerou commented 1 year ago

There have been plenty of excellent suggestions already, so we should consider what we could remove to make space for adding questions about new features. Issue #11 already discusses removing the HTML questions, and #10 discusses removing the Houdini JS API questions. However, there are a few CSS features that are very widely used and we don't gain very much insight asking about them.

The features with > 90% usage in 2021 were:

Flexbox
calc()

So it seems reasonable that these could be removed. Are there any others that could be safely removed?

LeaVerou commented 1 year ago

RESOLVED:

Removed:

Flexbox
calc()
Multi-column (not new, if people don't use it at this point it's because they don't need it)
CSS Shapes
overflow-anchor
pointer-events
initial-letter

Also marked the following as at-risk:

CSS masks
clip-path
touch-action
font-variant-*
contain

LeaVerou commented 1 year ago

Going through the final version of the survey, I wonder about removing object-fit too. This has not been cutting edge for over a decade, at this point whoever doesn't use it, just doesn't need it.