[necovek]

Thanks, that's a nice read! (Note that I never suggested that CSS creators were unaware of the TeX box model, though I had no idea to what extent was it considered early on)

That also supports my claim that reflowing in TeX's box model would be simpler ("CSS is richer").

I simply highlighted a few things where TeX's box model does a great job for what are commonly hard problems with CSS even today (how do you align columns on decimal points?): I imagine most people, even LaTeX users today, are unaware of the internals, and I hope it's valuable for people to learn of them.

[cerved]

It's great thesis right?

It was never something I had thought about but I got curious so I did some digging.

It's true that some things are much easier in TeX, like aligning on decimals. HTML tables are used for all sorts of crazy so I'm not surprised it's harder to that kind of stuff