The Languages Which Almost Became CSS

This was adapted from a post which originally appeared on the Eager blog. Eager has now become the new Cloudflare Apps.
In fact, it has been a constant source of delight for me over the past year to get to continually tell hordes (literally) of people who want to – strap yourselves in, here it comes – control what their documents look like in ways that would be trivial in TeX, Microsoft Word, and every other common text processing environment: “Sorry, you’re screwed.”
— Marc Andreessen
1994
When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How a given HTML tag was rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences. To Continue reading