What's Wrong With CSS - Coding Horror

Anyway, I bring this up not because *my pokemans, let me show you them*, but because I have to personally maintain four different CSS files. And that number is only going to get larger. *Much* larger. That scares me a little. Most of all, what I’ve learned from this exercise in site theming is that **CSS is kind of painful**. I fully support CSS as a (mostly) functional user interface Model-View-Controller. But even if you have extreme HTML hygiene and Austrian levels of discipline, CSS has some serious limitations in practice. Things in particular that bite us a lot: - Vertical alignment is a giant, hacky PITA. (Tables work great for this though!) - Lack of variables so we have to repeat colors all over the place. - Lack of nesting so we have to repeat huge blocks of CSS all over the place. In short, CSS violates the living crap out of the DRY principle. You are c*onstantly* and *unavoidably* repeating yourself.