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Oh come on, layout languages had been around for years when CSS first appeared. The problem with CSS is that it was designed by the sorts of people who like to
by thras 17y ago
Oh come on, layout languages had been around for years when CSS first appeared.
The problem with CSS is that it was designed by the sorts of people who like to design languages around vague concepts rather than design languages around getting things done. In the case of CSS, the overriding concept was semantic information. Surprise, surprise, it only turns out to be mildly useful.
The visual web was horribly crippled in order to achieve a mediocre result with a few non-visual edge cases.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoThe visual web was horribly crippled in order to achieve a mediocre result with a few non-visual edge cases. The visual web was deprecated in favour of presenting information in an accessible manner (for people and computers). Not a perfectly accessibble manner for sure. Direct visual fidelity has always been available with PDF and to some extent with flash. There are good reasons why all webpages are not simply embedded PDF pages although [print] graphic designers will probably beg to differ!