Posts Tagged ‘CSS Constants’

Why are we trying to re-invent the wheel?

Today, Peter Gasston posted an article summing up a recent post from Daniel Glazman talking about possible future extensions to CSS, and in particular Symbolic Constants.

I’m really trying to get my head round why this proposal was put forward (possibly because I’m particularly tired tonight and am missing some blatant advantages, in which case someone please point them out to me), but I’m really not sure why we’re trying to turn CSS into a programming language (see last two lines of Appendix E).