My issues with shorthand properties

The removal of CSS shorthand properties would benefit us all.

At CSSDay this year I was lucky enough to meet and chat for a few minutes with Adam Argyle. He asked me what I would change about CSS if we* were to invent it today and my answer was: “not introduce shorthand properties to the syntax”.*I like to imagine that he meant “we” as in “he and I”, not the W3C or the community as a whole.

Since then I’ve thought a lot about why I said that, and have now tried to write a down defense for this utterly absurd statement.

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