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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

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197 points OuterVale | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 04:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.394s | source
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eviks ◴[11 Dec 25 09:11 UTC] No.46229213[source]▶
> That should be corrected if anyone invents a time machine. :P

Why can't this be dealt with with CSS versioning/features where you can opt into your current-color and a lot of more substantive style behavior while leaving currentColor functional?

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1. Timwi ◴[11 Dec 25 13:06 UTC] No.46230890[source]▶
A lot of the behaviors should just have a toggle to turn them off. For example, there are many situations where margin collapsing is in the way and I keep wondering why there isn't simply a `margin-collapse: none`. It would also be nice to have something like `default-styles: none` that will remove all the default styling for h1/h2/etc. and em/strong/cite/etc. so I don't have to deal with browsers having differing defaults.
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2. shiomiru ◴[11 Dec 25 16:38 UTC] No.46233614[source]▶
> It would also be nice to have something like `default-styles: none` so I don't have to deal with browsers having differing defaults.

This already exists:

    *, ::before, ::after { all: unset }