- From: Justin Wood <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:37:42 -0400
- To: Orion Adrian <oadrian@hotmail.com>, W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
I was asked to send this to the list, was sent to me by accident ~Justin Wood Orion Adrian wrote: > Actually, I've found that the lack of structure has made CSS much > harder to write. I equate this to writing VBA stuff for MS Word. > Rather than have multiple methods taking the different types of > parameters, it had one method that would handle all contingencies and > the user had to look up the method every time to see what parameters > had to be set when in what situations. It's truly a nightmare. > > This is how I feel when trying to code for CSS. I can never remember > what properties are available when. It's also not helpful that the CSS > documentation is not presented in such a way as to make this easy to > remember. > > CSS 2 has a fairly simple, yet incosistent grammar, and unfortunately > its lack of structure makes it hard to code (i.e. language structure > only exists to help people memorize it, as structure helps > memorization and comprehension). > > Perhaps we need to start looking at introducing more structure into > CSS and revise the syntax, be it another language or not. > > Orion Adrian > > >
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