Non-inheriting CSS widgets are coming with Web Components and the Shadow DOM. http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/index.html http://dvcs.

Non-inheriting CSS widgets are coming with Web Components and the Shadow DOM. http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/index.html http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/i... Browsers, in fact, already use the shadow DOM to render many of their custom forms. It's just not available programmatically yet. Layouts aren't completely horrifying if you use a good, responsive grid, although within that grid framework itself there are likely some hacks. But as mentioned -- new CSS layout types are coming!