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by paulddraper 1178 days ago
What language/tech should CSS have looked to?
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Take your pick. Java Swing GridBagLayout? Anything that allows you to reason cogently about layout in terms of rows and columns?

I just wonder what CSS implementers were thinking when people started replacing desktop application with web-apps and they could see that application developers could zip through a dialog layout in minutes whereas the same thing in a browser would take endless effort and workarounds.