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CSS has absolutely never been good at what it was designed for. It is meant to display a document. It took TWENTY YEARS before it got support for showing text
by user-the-name 5y ago
CSS has absolutely never been good at what it was designed for.
It is meant to display a document. It took TWENTY YEARS before it got support for showing text in columns, the most basic of basic things in how text is often displayed.
It is only now, after twenty-five years, getting a way to specify the aspect ratio of an element.
It's an awful, awful joke.
- orangecat 5y agoCSS was originally intended to consolidate document style information, so you didn't have to repeat "24 point bold, blue" for all your section titles. It's pretty good for that, but then we somehow decided that it should also handle the entirely separate job of page layout. Which led to years of standards people yelling at us to use CSS and not tables, and then plugging their ears when asked how to implement complex designs like vertically centered text.