CSS is /the/ spec to look at to understand how awful something designed by committee gets.
In web specs closely rivaled by SVG.
You can pick which one is uglier and you'll be right.
In web specs closely rivaled by SVG.
You can pick which one is uglier and you'll be right.
As others pointed out: the fact you can do this in CSS tells you everything you need to know if you consider what CSS is for. Even w/o ever looking at the spec or understanding how it came to be.
i guess if you're someone still stuck on the "web browsers are for displaying static documents" and "css is for prettifying markup" thing, then sure, I bet what you said sounds real witty