Re:CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
by tannhaeuser on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:09PM
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Good points, and I definitely don't have an answer re: best layout engine. But my critique wasn't aiming that high and was merely about placing CSS syntax outside markup.
CSS design genesis seems to be "ok we have this and that HTML presentation attribute; let's put it in an entirely new item-value format and separate HTML attributes/CSS properties syntactically".
From this arbitrary decision in language design the idea developed that markup attributes are part of the "semantic" content of a document, and not for styling, when, to the contrary, markup attributes were specifically designed for styling and other properties.
As a consequence, CSS has numerous redundancies, asymmetries, and absurdities such as CSS shapes, SVG properties you can style with CSS, the "content:" property, dogmatic and implementation-driven limitations for using presentational attributes on elements, etc.
CSS design genesis seems to be "ok we have this and that HTML presentation attribute; let's put it in an entirely new item-value format and separate HTML attributes/CSS properties syntactically".
From this arbitrary decision in language design the idea developed that markup attributes are part of the "semantic" content of a document, and not for styling, when, to the contrary, markup attributes were specifically designed for styling and other properties.
As a consequence, CSS has numerous redundancies, asymmetries, and absurdities such as CSS shapes, SVG properties you can style with CSS, the "content:" property, dogmatic and implementation-driven limitations for using presentational attributes on elements, etc.