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On 10/6/2014 3:29 AM, David Botton wrote:
> It is important to me that laying out a GUI should be simpler than CSS,
> which is how it would be done right now.

Good choice, CSS is crap when it comes to real layout.
It would have been nicer if "they" had chosen something like PostScript 
for handling layout needs rather than hopping on the anemic styling to 
get some of what they wanted.