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Funny how the problem itself is created by CSS, and the solution is "more CSS." On the other hand, bare HTML tends to be extremely accessible and lacks these kinds of basic problems with panning, zooming, and scrolling.

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CSS is this weird thing where it has dominance as a layout engine because it is so battle tested compared to a lot of other layout engines, but was clearly designed by a committee that could give a rat’s ass about how ergonomic it is to use.

It took until 2023 to support nesting, something that was so obvious that preprocessors have had it since at least 2006.

Bare HTML is pretty bad for accessibility. For example, you get no maximum width, making websites painful to read in a wide window.

Windows are resizable. Built-in width selection!

You can’t set a different size per site. More width is better for sites that have sidebars and stuff.

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