Comments on: Ten reasons why CSS sucks

By: Jantje

Jantje — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:15:47 +0000

After manny years (old days) of using tables to get the website layout the way I wanted, I wanted to modernize. So I stated to learn div with css positioning. (w3c schools). It is a huge pain to create layouts. The absolute worst is aligning things in the center. Only aligning text is made “easy” but also then I have to repeat it all the time again. Aligning complete sections is an absolute disaster. I am gonna fall back on “depricated” commands and see how long it takes before webbrowser cant show it anymore. A big big big thumbs down for the w3c standard. Making it simply unneeded more complicated by depriocating some commands.

By: hsn

hsn — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:11:42 +0000

Agree! css is not the easiest to learn and does not provide all the required features to create nice layouts. People are stuck because most want to use css as it can result in clean HTML. Most css layouts are “hacks”. There are zillions of such examples on the web. Most of the css layouts in the end depend on pixel based positioning to circumvent some of the pitfalls. I am not saying that layouts using html tables are the best, but more often than not tables work better and easier than css. I personally don’t like use table to create layouts because it is not meant for that purpose. Someone can argue with a lot of reasons why to use css as it is and grow slowly so that more people will accommodate the changes and all that. But at least when we go to HTML-5 and CSS3 some of these issues should have been visited as a fresh start.

By: Dersk One

Dersk One — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:20:20 +0000

Like this thread, I dont know how many times I get into arguements about css. I find it useful for some things, very little things, but as far as design and sticking true to it, gotta say I love html, and always had…Dersk.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:56:00 +0000

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By: Lsmith999999

Lsmith999999 — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:50:00 +0000

I agree completely. I’m a very experienced C++ developer, with many years of experience in countless technologies. I know my way around software better than most, and CSS is unquestionably the most perverse and frustrating technology I’ve ever used. I’ve spent countless hours trying to get the most basic things working and it’s unbelievable how many problems exist. The most trivial things frequently don’t work as advertised, or work differently depending on the environment (browser, etc.), and you then beat yourself silly trying to figure out what’s wrong. What’s wrong is the technology itself, and all the “expert’s who brought this plague to the Internet. So much for good intentions.

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nha khoa — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:40:00 +0000

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By: nha khoa

nha khoa — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:39:00 +0000

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By: Jasonc65

Jasonc65 — Mon, 23 May 2011 11:18:00 +0000

CSS = “Careening Slime Sheets”