Comments on: What’s Wrong With … CSS? http://blog.pdark.de/2006/02/28/whats-wrong-with-css/ Opinions and views about computers, writing SciFi and everything else. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://blog.pdark.de/2006/02/28/whats-wrong-with-css/#comment-15 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:16:00 +0000 http://darkviews.wordpress.com/2006/02/28/whats-wrong-with-css/#comment-15 Amen! Hear’ya loud and clear!
CSS has a lot of hype but is way too buggy and unpredictable to deliver. And the box model which has margins, borders and padding all on the outside is simply wrong. It turns positioning an alignment, which should be something simple, into something incredibly unintuitive. It also makes percentages values useless. – A 100% “div” with a border is actually wider than the screen… Weird huh?

Changing design in one sweep from a single css, fixes 100 pages and kills a 1000 – pages which were created in the designers absence by a person who misinterpreted the intended use of that particular class.

In time, style-sheets get so big, with unidentifiable crap, that they no sense what’s or ever, and you are afraid to delete the styles, just because you don’t know where they belong. Digging though other peoples css on a 10,000 page site is no picnic either.

But in all fairness CSS did get rid of the “font” tag amen for that…

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