> This doesn't even address the fundemantal design flaw with CSS I don't think CSS layout issues could be described as a 'fundamental design flaw'. CSS origin

> This doesn't even address the fundemantal design flaw with CSS I don't think CSS layout issues could be described as a 'fundamental design flaw'. CSS originally didn't really address layout at all - it was about styling the content of documents. IMO it's a stretch to say layout was 'fundamental' to CSS. The fundamental parts of CSS are the way multiple styles from multiple places are inherited down a nested tree structure and applied or overridden based on their specificity. For it's time and the constraints it had to work with (ie preexisting HTML handling the structure), I think it was an elegant solution at heart. Especially when looking at it on context of the problems it was solving. Sure the world moved on and demanded more and more from CSS with little help from popular browsers, but that all came later on as the web exploded. > Layout is about the relationship between TWO THINGS. If you have a layout language that deals with only one thing at a time, then you have failed. Why do you think CSS only deals with one thing at a time? CSS is all about how the element behaves in relation to it's relatives (eg parents and siblings etc as defined by the HTML). But it is about matching rules against the existing document structure rather than defining the document structure.