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Usually when people refer to "assembly language for the web" they're talking about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the building blocks for higher abstractions. These guys took the phrase a bit more literally.



People should take that "assembly language" quip more seriously. Why are we still writing raw CSS?


We (http://280slides.com) have zero CSS, zero HTML (excluding the loading screen and landing page)


What are you using to generate your HTML and CSS? Haml and Sass or something else?


No, not even generated HTML or CSS.

HAML and SASS seem to provide a very thin abstraction; you're still basically writing HTML and CSS.

Our JavaScript framework builds everything via the DOM. But our application code doesn't touch the DOM either, it's all abstracted.


Is that a public framework, or something that you guys wrote internally?




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