> HTML+browsers have been carefully designed and optimized by people who know the intricacies of document rendering. You're joking, right? HTML+CSS requires he

> HTML+browsers have been carefully designed and optimized by people who know the intricacies of document rendering. You're joking, right? HTML+CSS requires heaps of workarounds to achieve the most trivial layouts. The people behind these standards have no understanding of documents and no taste in software: they deem the absence of variables in CSS a feature, and the result is Less, scss, and similar preprocessors. Had the CSS committee at least the sense to copy the boxes-and-glue model from TeX, things might not be so grim. As is, we seem to be stuck with their clumsiness for a long time.