The CSS Zen Garden dream shipped

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Rebuilding Firefox. com with Mozilla and Lincoln Loop on modern, native CSS with no preprocessors, and what that means for design systems today. Back in 2008, fresh out of college, I discovered CSS Zen Garden, Dave Shea’s project where one HTML file could be restyled into something completely different using nothing but CSS. Custom properties gave us variables the browser understands. The authored CSS is still plain, native CSS.

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