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>"Only CSS" CSS is by far the most advanced, flexible, and powerful layout technology in existence.
by ramesh31 2y ago
>"Only CSS"
CSS is by far the most advanced, flexible, and powerful layout technology in existence.
- azangru 2y agoI am not seeing it used much in print though.
- brobdingnag_pp 2y agoThat’s because print is an additive medium and requires support for additive colorspaces (CMYK) and device color profiles.
- california-og 2y agoThis is probably coming to CSS in the coming years. [0] Which makes me very excited for one reason: CSS is nearing feature parity (and surpassing it in some areas) with Adobe InDesign, so we can finally ditch adobe and just make print publications within the browser. The only other thing missing after custom colour profiles is a proper text justification algorithm, although, for many, it's not so important because people are already used to reading ragged text. [0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#color-space https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#color-space
- rikroots 2y agoIt's in the CSS Color 5 spec - here: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/#cal-cmyk https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/#cal-cmyk
- Kiro 2y agoI don't understand how this is still a thing in 2024.
- brobdingnag_pp 2y agoIt’s essential complexity, so it’s not going anywhere.
- dwallin 2y agoI would maybe say that it is almost assuredly one of the most featureful and widely used layout technology. But I'm not convinced it's the most powerful, flexible, or even advanced. It suffers from significant performance issues due to legacy baggage and a poor underlying abstractions. There is a reason anyone building things like visual editors, spreadsheets, et al tend to drop into lower level rendering technologies.