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But here's the thing: CSS is a stone soup of non-local, action-at-distance effects -- it's "goto" programming. HTML lacks decent layout primitives (border layou

But here's the thing: CSS is a stone soup of non-local, action-at-distance effects -- it's "goto" programming. HTML lacks decent layout primitives (border layout, grid layout) because it's a document-oriented abstraction. It's just really obnoxious to get a single screen application look working correctly on all browsers. So, I'd welcome a reimplementation of, say, WPF on canvas. Something that works without Microsoft's, Google's, and Mozilla's explicit blessing really is needed.

woah 14y ago
CSS is not that hard. Many developers simply put off doing it at any cost, then throw together a messy unorganized stylesheet and blame the language. I'll agree with you on the layout shortcomings, such as using excessive floats etc. But once flexbox is fully implemented as a standard, this will become much easier.
- praptak 14y ago
  > CSS is not that hard. It is not hard, it is just not fit for laying out UI because it is was not developed with this purpose in mind. CSS3/flexbox is an afterthought attempt to fix that.