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by _aavaa_ 851 days ago
I personally believe it was incompetence. CSS was not the first or only markup language in existence and yet here we are years later...
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dylan604 851 days ago
I was not aware that CSS was a markup language
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_aavaa_ 851 days ago
How would you classify the language that most web pages use for specifying where to put the text and images (e.g. attempt to center it)?
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dylan604 851 days ago
A rules based language.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/First_ste...

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progmetaldev 851 days ago
If it was a markup language, it would be much easier to use. Instead, it's a rules based system that works upon a markup language (and I'm not trying to be pedantic, it would be easier if it was part of the markup, but also require much more work to change the look of content by needing to change the markup - which might be generated dynamically and difficult to change without lots of programming effort).
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