http://ria.dzone.com/blogs/dan/2008/02/21/css3-solution-applications-or- Comments for "CSS3: A solution for applications, or are we the boiling frogs?" en http://ria.dzone.com/blogs/dan/2008/02/21/css3-solution-applications-or-#comment-1314 <!--paging_filter--><p>You may not hate CSS, but I do. I hate CSS! I hate CSS! Flex may not be the answer for everyone, but I'm sure ready to dump the old way.</p><p>I remember when I first learned about style sheets back in the last millennium -- they sounded brilliant. I love what CSS is supposed to be, but in actuality it's not that. I feel like I've been hoodwinked by a smarmy used-car salesman in plaid polyester pants and a road-kill mustache. What a damned waste of time... I'm trying to do a job, not screw around to accommodate crappy tools. What the hell other profession puts up with such mediocre tools -- eagerly inventing Rube Goldberg solutions to fix them before even beginning to address the task at hand?</p><p>The frog analogy fits. I think we've been boiled enough to look like toads. </p> Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:18:46 -0500 ben.burwick comment 1314 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/blogs/dan/2008/02/21/css3-solution-applications-or-#comment-1311 <!--paging_filter-->I completely agree. What's so frustrating is HTML/CSS/Javascript 'could' work. I LOVE developing things in Firefox and it's a joy to hop over to the Mac or my Linux box open Firefox on those platforms and see... the same results! My happiness drys up and withers away however when I open Internet Explorer and things break. Horribly. And I have to spend hours debugging (with crappy tools), hacking CSS (why!), and then having to flip-flop back to Firefox just to make sure my 'fixes' didn't break something else. I would love to see some kind of number put on the hours wasted trying to fix browser issues and the cost associated with that time. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:30:04 -0500 thecrumb comment 1311 at http://ria.dzone.com