The What If Machine: Bringing the “Iffy” Future of CSS into the Present

My thesis for today's article offers further reassurance that inline conditionals are probably not the harbinger of the end of civilization: I reckon we can achieve the same functionality right now with style queries, which are gaining pretty good browser support.


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