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		goatlover on July 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is CSS the way it is? I'd rather it be a programming language, which Netscape tried to do with Javascript Style Sheets in the late 90s. Was way more flexible, but was never accepted as a standard and of course, was not supported by IE.

chrisallick on July 25, 2020 [–]

and yet millions of people have expressed themselves, published information, shared it, and benefitted. so... it works.

the corruption of the net is proportional to the corruption of the tools. a shame really.

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