I opened the article and read the first paragraph. Then skimmed the rest.
As others pointed out: the fact you can do this in CSS tells you everything you need to know if you consider what CSS is for. Even w/o ever looking at the spec or understanding how it came to be.
i don't see what you mean? it's a rendering technology
i guess if you're someone still stuck on the "web browsers are for displaying static documents" and "css is for prettifying markup" thing, then sure, I bet what you said sounds real witty
Crazy that the future of software development now looks like we'll all be making UIs with specs that just a few years ago didn't allow you to trivially center a widget in a container.
In web specs closely rivaled by SVG.
You can pick which one is uglier and you'll be right.