My feeling about CSS is similar to asm/Assembler. It gives you ultimate handles, but it's very much low-level down to pixels. Same about peculiarities of the un

My feeling about CSS is similar to asm/Assembler. It gives you ultimate handles, but it's very much low-level down to pixels. Same about peculiarities of the underlying platforms and browsers. While I see great uses for asm directly within parts of an application constructed with higher-level languages, yet building a whole system using asm is unnecessary. Compiler does this job. With CSS from scratch or not, you need to move, store, add, clear, and jump on your own. And let's not think of how many losely coupled variables a real-life web-design presents to deal with. There's no compiler for this, only a debugger (Firebug, etc.) CSS frameworks simplify some aspects of this, but fundamentally it's still low-level. That's what makes this CSS chase a somewhat futile exercise in a long run. Assembler is at least is more concise to memorize.