<story><title>“Tomato” versus “#FF6347” – the tragicomic history of CSS color names</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/tomato-versus-ff6347-the-tragicomic-history-of-css-color-names</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0x4a42</author><text>Should be entitled &amp;quot;The tragic history of CSS episode n&amp;quot; where n is any number between 0 and infinity.&lt;p&gt;CSS is a complete utter crap that failed to solve the problems for which it exists. Today CSS is a broken tool that still can&amp;#x27;t easily be used to design even the most basic layout without requiring a ton of hacks.&lt;p&gt;Among a fews:&lt;p&gt;- A broken box model that the W3C picked over the one from MS. For finally adding the MS&amp;#x27;s model years later leaving us with 2 boxe models and a broken compatibility.&lt;p&gt;- Centering things? You have to use hacks even for this simple purpose.&lt;p&gt;- Building grids? Let&amp;#x27;s have fun and pick the one you prefer : html tables, display table, floats, flexbox, css grids...&lt;p&gt;- About Tables: 15 years ago everybody switche to tabless layouts for the purpose of separating markup from presentation. A few years later we got access to the table display mode in CSS because, well, not a single one from the other solution worked well to build layout. Qo we got offered the option to emulate html tables in CSS.&lt;p&gt;- They added CSS animations. What animations have to do with styling and layout? Oh it&amp;#x27;s to compensate the bad performances we got when animating things with JS.&lt;p&gt;Etc, etc, etc. CSS is just a complete mess.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Tomato” versus “#FF6347” – the tragicomic history of CSS color names</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/tomato-versus-ff6347-the-tragicomic-history-of-css-color-names</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lawtonfogle</author><text>&amp;gt;Perhaps the most vehement denunciation comes from a 2002 e-mail written by programmer Steven Pemberton: “The X11 colour names are an abomination that should have been stifled at birth, and adding them to CSS is a blemish on the otherwise excellent design of CSS.&lt;p&gt;Now I don&amp;#x27;t have much experience with CSS.  Only have been using it for ~5 years, and never any of the real complex magic.  But if I were to make a list of design problems I have with CSS, color names wouldn&amp;#x27;t even make it on the list.</text></comment>