Chapter 3. Implementing Received Wisdom

You often don't really understand the problem until after the first time you implement a solution -The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s02.html)

In the last chapter we considered some of the more obvious difficulties of dealing with a large CSS codebase. In this chapter, we'll consider some existing approaches for dealing with those problems.

Over the course of two years I've went on a CSS architecture and maintenance odyssey. Near the beginning of the experience I did what any sensible developer should do. I looked to see how smart people had dealt with the problem already.

CSS architectural approaches can seem like the equivalent of diet pills for the overweight. It's easy to snatch at apparent solutions, hoping they'll be exactly what you need. However, you probably don't know exactly what you need until you've tried to solve your problems...