[mananaysiempre]

I’m not sure it’s a waste. Yes, CSS layout is complex, bordering on stupidly complex. But I’m not aware of any other reflowable layout system of comparable power. The sheer amount of pain it takes to wrangle something like CSS floats out of TeX—on a fixed-size page!—certainly makes me appreciate just how difficult the problems CSS solves are.

Though it sure would be nice if people were exploring other approaches to reflowable layout without tying themselves to CSS and modern browsers’ codebases.