{"id":1088,"date":"2008-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/06\/29\/1026\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T22:00:00","slug":"1026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/06\/29\/1026\/","title":{"rendered":"CSS Considered Unstylish &#8211; or why CSS sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Meyer \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybergrain.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/css_considered.html\">CSS Considered Unstylish &#8211; or why CSS sucks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;CSS purports to separate style and content, but in fact it radically fails to do so. Rather, the opposite is true &#8211; CSS actually conflates style and structure. CSS stylesheets impose many implicit restrictions on the HTML structure. These restrictions are poorly defined and underspecified.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Rules have a tendency to get tangled together, and its hard to pull them apart. Often, its faster to start from scratch than to modify an existing stylesheet.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] To conclude, I believe CSS is too complex, has no good WYSIWIG experience, and misses basic features found in other styling systems.<\/p>\n<p>CSS would be stronger if it only offered named styles, based-on styles, no cascade, and support for modules\/namespacing. &#8222;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Meyer \u2013 CSS Considered Unstylish &#8211; or why CSS sucks: &#8222;CSS purports to separate style and content, but in fact it radically fails to do so. Rather, the opposite is true &#8211; CSS actually conflates style and structure. CSS stylesheets impose many implicit restrictions on the HTML structure. These restrictions are poorly defined and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}