GDI was originally designed to run on printers as well as screens, where the DPI values are completely different.

The declarative model of CSS has nothing to do with it. You can specify pixel values in CSS if you like.

And many (most?) do... leading to the reinterpretation of what "pixel" means in the CSS spec. Yes, CSS pixel does not mean a physical pixel on the screen.

Integer pixel coordinates are right there in the most fundamental functions:

    HWND WINAPI CreateWindow(LPCTSTR lpClassName,
                             LPCTSTR lpWindowName,
                             DWORD dwStyle,
                             int x,
                             int y,
                             int nWidth,
                             int nHeight,
                             HWND hWndParent,
                             HMENU hMenu,
                             HINSTANCE hInstance,
                             LPVOID lpParam);

CSS people still think a grid is a choice of "small" "medium" and "large" columns/rows. Haha.

> CSS people still think a grid is a choice of "small" "medium" and "large" columns/rows. Haha.

CSS Grid is literally Microsoft taking the WPF grid layout and porting it to the Web!

And even now it's still not mature and supported in all browsers.

> we don't need the new stuff

> how about we throw both away to shut everyone up, would that make either side happy?

There's nothing special about javascript the language. The nice thing about web development is that the really fast framework iteration cycles. And everyone complains about them, but as a result we have some fantastic APIs for UI development in javascript land now. (Eg, react.)

What I want to see is someone port those lovely abstractions across to native languages. For example, a port of choo[1] to swift on top of uikit would be gloriously fast, efficient, small and easy to work with.

[1] https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo

Edit: I'll add, I frequently see people say that Windows XP was the best OS ever made. Why the rose-tinted glasses? It was the tail end of the era when hardware was getting faster, faster than software was getting slower.