I'm just talking about rendering a page based on what you specify in HTML/CSS, not the component model you might want to add behind. I'm pretty sure there's no

I'm just talking about rendering a page based on what you specify in HTML/CSS, not the component model you might want to add behind. I'm pretty sure there's no technology more optimized for displaying content-rich visual information than HTML/CSS and the browser's rendering engines. It's that combined with the fact that this has been the lingua-france for every web-designer wishing to express himself for the past decade that makes it a winning combination...