A more general CSS
As a language, I like CSS, it has a simple elegance that achieves it’s humble goals very nicely. It’s these humble goals that bother me. HTML is an XML based language, and fundamentally, all CSS is doing is targeting nodes within this XML and modifying their attributes. Of course, it’s not possible to, for example, modify the href property in an anchor tag, and this shows that the implementation of CSS is stifled by it’s modest goals. Also, CSS’ ever-growing list of selectors shows a fundamental inflexibility in it’s syntax. Selectors basically target specific nodes within your HTML, this sounds [...]
