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Comment by praptak | Hacker News Reader

> CSS is inspired by the style sheets of yore

Which is in my opinion the reason why it sucks for most of its current use cases. Layout of a paper document and layout of a web page are very different. The web "page" often isn't even a page but rather a GUI for a computer program.

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From the beginning, CSS tutorials said just what you said, that the web is not the printed page and that you should not strive for pixel-perfect layout.

Which is exactly what anyone that I've talked to that gets paid to write CSS in any aspect is expected to do with it; pixel-perfect layouts.

I already had the "pleasure" of being in a project whose customer was refusing to pay as it was pixel perfect with their Powerpoint designs and across all major browsers and OSes. :(

It's not necessarily about pixel perfect. Even basic things like "two divs horizontally" are not intuitive in CSS, especially pre-flex-box.

CSS grid is a big improvement here though.

Use spans then...

The selling point of CSS tho is that layout change should not require change in html.

  div { display:inline-block }

was that really so hard?

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