Date: 2011-11-09 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com
No. CSS began wildly inconsistent and with no thought to language design whatsoever. Let's say you want to center an element both horizontally and vertically. How would you do it? Who the hell invented the "box model" and what is its rationale?
CSS3 adds more random crap, still with no thought to consistency or organization. It that sense, it does directly extend CSS in its original direction.
I have never wasted enough time to find out who invented CSS*, but I bet they know nothing about the design of computer languages.

* I have actually Googled a little, but never successfully. One of the painful professional lessons I've learned is that when you find an important strategic decision which is so fubar that no one admits even to knowing who made the original decision, run, don't walk, to the nearest exit.

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