[teleclimber]

> But every proposed replacement for CSS I've seen (e.g. Cassowary) has made the complexity problem worse.

Hi, what other proposed replacements for CSS do you know about? I'm interested in seeing what problems they ran into.

I need to go look at Cassowary again. IIRC it's a solver, so sometimes the layout won't be what you expected, and it's very hard to know what to change such that it does what you want.

[pcwalton]

Cassowary was admittedly a bad example, because it's a layout algorithm rather than a style system. But I've seen folks suggest that we just replace CSS with TeX, for example. Using TeX would make this problem a lot worse, because styling TeX involves expanding textual macros. You would lose any possibility of parallelism, ever.