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alkonaut on Feb 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why Haven't GUI Front End Editors Caught O...

It's like a magic spell that makes very little sense and is impossible to guess.

If I fire up a reasonable layout system (Xaml for example) which is completely foreign, it's trivial to do there.

I can't understand why html/CSS makes it so hard.

lj3 on Feb 10, 2017 [–]

Because html/css was never intended to be used for layout. It's primarily a content styling system for static documents.

alkonaut on Feb 10, 2017 | | [–]

Html/CSS have been revised a few times since then, so you'd think that the design should gravitate towards making the common things easy.

stevage on Feb 11, 2017 | | [–]

That was a true statement in maybe 2005?

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