I agree. Most of the HTML I write is to create structure for CSS to use. For example, a `div` is a container, but we put it on the content side.
What would have been better would be a flat map identifier -> binary (or string or whatever, your choice) as the content, and then "CSS" (quotes because it wouldn't be the CSS we know now) would declare the layout/look and would read the content map for insertion into placeholders declared in the "CSS". I've omitted programmable considerations cause this is a HN comment and not intended to be formal proposal. Not surprisingly, the web has kinda already shifted towards this, through the use of JSON APIs in JS.
What would have been better would be a flat map identifier -> binary (or string or whatever, your choice) as the content, and then "CSS" (quotes because it wouldn't be the CSS we know now) would declare the layout/look and would read the content map for insertion into placeholders declared in the "CSS". I've omitted programmable considerations cause this is a HN comment and not intended to be formal proposal. Not surprisingly, the web has kinda already shifted towards this, through the use of JSON APIs in JS.