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That reminds me the pitch for the first time I discovered css zen garden: "you can redesign your website without changing the HTML!"

I sort of liked it at first. I even added the opportunity for my users to modify the CSS to add new styles, and share these to other members of the community via a configuration page. It was a neat thing but not many people bothered and in the end it made everything more complicated (and I guess I was really scared of vulnerabilities the whole time, what can go wrong with letting your users set the stylesheet.)

Worse, I think this new approach broke the web as it was: an explosion of flash-layout or photoshop--or-fireworks-cut-layout websites. It used to be beautiful. Now the web is just a series of websites styled by CSS. It's sad.

phones (and their screen size + apple killing flash) really killed the beauty of the web IMO. Now everything's an app.