The look of HTML pages used to be up to the end user, W3C should never have allowed non-logical HTML and other ways of breaking design. When a new standard is i

The look of HTML pages used to be up to the end user, W3C should never have allowed non-logical HTML and other ways of breaking design. When a new standard is invented as a remedy, it will suffer the same fate as HTML as long as this problem is not taken care of. AFAIK, the way to take care of it is to enforce semantic markup in all aspects of a page and leave the rest to the end user. The browser should know things like "this is a large list of strings that the user can choose", "this is an image with the following description", maybe even author-intended display preferences, but not more than that. I think the overall best solution would be to switch from a layout language to a programming language where each program manages special input and output variables that are marked semantically and given display and layout hints. No HTML, no CSS, just programs on a virtual "semantic display" with input and output of data to the user.