Comments on: CSS Sucked my Soul http://labnotes.org/2008/06/29/css-sucked-my-soul/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:29:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jos Hirth http://labnotes.org/2008/06/29/css-sucked-my-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-140759 Jos Hirth Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:36:46 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/?p=1078#comment-140759 It's really great how even the most simple things (those CSS was invented for) feel like a hack. Everything is done indirectly through a needle's eye. Everything would be easier with a proper programming language for this task. And more importantly the required time wouldn't be completely random. Additionally, the correctness of the implementation would be easier to verify. I really hate the mess CSS currently is. I really really do. There are a dozen /creative/ techniques to do the very same thing... and all of those fail in different obscure ways. Who wants something like that? I'd rather write two times as much (in a sane programming language) as the perfect solution with CSS would be. Simply because actually doing that on the first try never seems to happen in reality. I usually have to redo pieces over and over again. Sometimes I'm forced to add extra markup etc. A /massive/ rather complicated specification really isn't doing anyone any good. And then there is that damage amplifier called Internet Explorer. Bah! :v It’s really great how even the most simple things (those CSS was invented for) feel like a hack. Everything is done indirectly through a needle’s eye. Everything would be easier with a proper programming language for this task. And more importantly the required time wouldn’t be completely random.

Additionally, the correctness of the implementation would be easier to verify.

I really hate the mess CSS currently is. I really really do. There are a dozen /creative/ techniques to do the very same thing… and all of those fail in different obscure ways. Who wants something like that?

I’d rather write two times as much (in a sane programming language) as the perfect solution with CSS would be. Simply because actually doing that on the first try never seems to happen in reality. I usually have to redo pieces over and over again. Sometimes I’m forced to add extra markup etc. A /massive/ rather complicated specification really isn’t doing anyone any good.

And then there is that damage amplifier called Internet Explorer. Bah! :v

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