> but it always seemed to me that CSS was fine for style, but terrible for layout.
I think you're right there. When I've set colours, fonts, etc in CSS it's always worked first time, but getting layout right it feels like I'm fighting against the system all the time.
I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to build a tool that abstracts out the layout part of CSS? I once built a tool in python that lays out Tk/Tkinter GUIs[1] which I may have a go at adapting to produce CSS/HTML output.
I think you're right there. When I've set colours, fonts, etc in CSS it's always worked first time, but getting layout right it feels like I'm fighting against the system all the time.
I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to build a tool that abstracts out the layout part of CSS? I once built a tool in python that lays out Tk/Tkinter GUIs[1] which I may have a go at adapting to produce CSS/HTML output.
1: https://github.com/cabalamat/parrot