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If half the effort put into shitting on CSS went instead to improving it, maybe it would be perfect by now. The requirements of CSS as a language are insanely c

If half the effort put into shitting on CSS went instead to improving it, maybe it would be perfect by now. The requirements of CSS as a language are insanely complicated - open source, implemented by different browsers, on all different devices, for applications doing a huge variety of things, working with 20 years of legacy code. I defy anyone to explain how they would do it better and still satisfy all the constraints.

dmitriid 7y ago
> If half the effort put into shitting on CSS went instead to improving it, maybe it would be perfect by now. More than half of effort is put into improving it. Too little reaches the final stages. > I defy anyone to explain how they would do it better and still satisfy all the constraints. I had a rant or two about this in the past: https://medium.com/@dmitriid/ok-w3c-and-whatwg-dont-die-but-7952221fcbe4 https://medium.com/@dmitriid/ok-w3c-and-whatwg-dont-die-but-... :) CSS and HTML still pretend they are just text and images on a paper (or a 2D plane). And this hasn't been the case for over 10 years. As a layout engine CSS still has less capabilities than Delphi or Qt from early 2000.
- the_other 7y ago
  And you can't run Delphi or QT based projects on Windows, macOS, Linux and Haiku, in most of the browsers that run on all those operating systems.
  - dmitriid 7y ago
    You can definitely run Qt on various platforms. That's the whole point of Qt to begin with :) The ability to have CSS in most browsers (a total of three of them as of 2019 since IE is switching to Chromium) is not really an excuse for the state of CSS.
  - jcelerier 7y ago
    > QT based projects on Windows, macOS, Linux and Haiku, Qt supports all of those and much more.