Matthew Smith wrote:
A question that's been on my mind for quite some time - why is CSS in such a whacky format?
CSS1 was designed in pre-XML times ('96), which is why we have CSS's half-assed XPath (CSS Selectors) and namespaces. It's also why CSS is it's own weird-ass syntax.
My personal opinion is that when CSS2 came out it should have been XMLised because CSS1 wasn't a significant legacy (even then, browsers could have been instructed to parse both). CSS1 didn't even have layout, aside from floats, and people hadn't invested nearly as much in it.
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