As a developer, I want a sane platform. Sometimes I want to write documents and sometimes I want to write applications.
> This is sane from a declarative document styling syntax.
Is it? CSS intentionally avoided mixing animation with live layout resolution and now we have a "switch" to enable it. I wouldn't call that elegant.
If we could just hook into layout with code this could have been resolved years ago instead of waiting for browser makers to invent yet another set keywords.
In my opinion the problem is the lack of good GUI editing apps for purely HTML documents and no standard for self-contained HTML docs (that would bundle all the ressources into a single clickable file).
Word for the web basically, but with support for multimedia.
In that sense the web has failed, there is epub but it's not really good.
I want a hypertext document viewer.
> @starting-style, transition-behavior: allow-discrete, interpolate-size: allow-keywords and ::details-content
This is sane from a declarative document styling syntax.