> Wasn't the whole point of CSS to separate presentation from data Well, no, not really. It was intended to stem the tide of HTML devolving entirely into a pre

> Wasn't the whole point of CSS to separate presentation from data Well, no, not really. It was intended to stem the tide of HTML devolving entirely into a presentation language, but H.W.Lie's thesis[1] makes it quite clear that HTML was always expected to remain a middle ground mish-mash of structure, content, and presentation, one in which everyday authors could still intuitively grasp the purpose of standard elements, and over which CSS would then supply some contextual visual order. The fundamental notion of CSS is a rich and versatile and non-Turing-complete set of overlaying structural selectors, a design somewhat in reaction to the perceived inapproachability and abstraction of DSSSL; something that still pains me even two decades after that battle was lost. [1] https://www.wiumlie.no/2006/phd/css.pdf https://www.wiumlie.no/2006/phd/css.pdf