What's going to replace HTML & CSS & JS?

Posted by Nigel Thorne on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Nigel Thorne
Published on 2009-04-17T04:04:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 4:13 UTC
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HTML and CSS are showing their age.

SASS generates CSS (because CSS isn't clean enough). Graphic Designers don't work in HTML, they work in graphics tools then have to translate it to HTML/CSS. JavaScript has to have abstractions like jQuery, and CSS has a bunch of hacks to even start approaching consistent predictable user experience.

It feels like people are doing some wonderful things despite the technologies, not because of them.

Surely there is a better way?!? Something more closely aligned with the task at hand.. of providing a fluid intuitive (consistent) user experience to let users achieve their goals.

Thoughts?

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