[kaba0]

HTML and CSS has overlapping control over many properties on how a given document is rendered, so Zen Garden is more like “check out this Turing complete program written in CSS” — cute and interesting, but it is not practical as we can see from.. literally no real website doing anything remotely like that. This myth came from a time when we had markdown-level HTML markups, and it made sense back then: sure, why not let me color headers red? But it doesn’t scale as it simply doesn’t compose. That cascading part doesn’t make sense for many properties: should padding be inherited? It basically never makes sense. Components are the sane building blocks (as has been realized by desktop GUIs decades ago), and we are much better off with strong encapsulation here (shadow dom is a welcome change).