[HN Gopher] The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
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       The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
        
       Author : wyclif
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2020-08-11 07:51 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | perardi wrote:
       | "As a final way of kindling your jealousy, DSSSL could treat
       | inherited values as variables, and do math on them..."
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       | As per the article, this would have been _a lot_ to implement
       | back then, but sigh, what a wonderful world that wold have been.
        
       | dmethvin wrote:
       | > If CSS was designed the way it is just to satisfy the
       | constraints of 1996, then maybe that gives us permission 20 years
       | later to do things a little differently.
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       | Yeah, just like we can choose which side of the road to drive on
       | or pick any arbitrary character encoding for an 8-bit byte.
        
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