A recent discussion on HN [1] has showed that surprisingly many people do not like HTML/CSS/JS. If you were to reinvent the web, how would your version of client-side look like? How would you simplify/improve markup language and style sheets? Would you replace them by a single language?<p>[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477190
Creating HTML and CSS with the aid of a time machine would be far easier. The problem with HTML and CSS is that we can't break the web, and much of HTML and CSS comes from a time where the kind of things we want to do now couldn't really be imagined.<p>Here is a list of mistakes the CSS Working Group would like to change, if we could go back in time to do so <a href="https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes</a><p>I would really encourage anyone who thinks the web platform as it stands is sucky to get involved in trying to make it better. There are lots of interesting things happening - a lot of them behind browser flags.<p>Also, take a look at Houdini - the project to open up the APIs and let you extend CSS itself. There is an explanation of the project here <a href="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/houdini-maybe-the-most-exciting-development-in-css-youve-never-heard-of/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/houdini-maybe-the-m...</a>