Unlimited "Boo!"s on whoever chose to use this shit AS AN EBOOK PUBLISHING STANDARD.
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Hey leave html out of this
fuck CSS
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you will not escape XML. The world will bathe in nuclear hellfire and XML will still be there, cackling to itself.
html is okay
css is fucking stupid garbage with no consistency though
HTML kind of sucks, but for understandable reasons IMO (old standard updated many times).
CSS is way worse.
This is genuinely, exactly, what writing CSS feels like to me.
No html is good tho. Have you seen the cutesy html evangelism website? https://justfuckingusehtml.com/
It's a 32-year-old XML-based markup language with a bunch of elements generally considered obsolete and a bunch of things added which are meant to torture it into doing things it was never intended for. It's not ideal, but it's not even close to as much of a mess as CSS.
CSS was always great in theory. The problem was that early versions didn't provide enough to do what it was basically designed for: desktop publishing. And by the time CSS could fully support desktop publishing, web development had moved in an application development direction, and CSS was being shoehorned into something it wasn't designed for.
I kind of don't see why HTML with CSS is bad for ebook puplishing, though.
Hot take: CSS is probably the closest thing we have to black magic in UI programming and there’s a reason why every single successful GUI framework and/or library (even the fully native non-webview) ones try their best to emulate it.
skill issue i fear
GPU-accelerated LaTeX when?
I miss just oldschool html. Like, no css or javascript or whatever. Back in the days of angelfire and geocities just typing out a bunch of
Fuck html5 and everything that came after. Shit got unnecessarily complicated. Fuck bootstrap, fuck sass, suck all of my dick
My hatred for HTML is bright as Venus, my hatred for CSS is bright as the Sun, my hatred for Javascript is bright as Sagittarius A*.
Unlimited Genocide on Brendan Eich as well as The First World. 
You may hate CSS, but as far as programmatically defining appearance and layout goes, what would you prefer? AWT? Imgui? Get real.
Latex
I want AWT!