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CSS as a Query Language

IN which we investigate using CSS as a query language, or even a general purpose programming language, to do things other than lay out web pages in a browser.

Question: Why in God’s good name would you do that? CSS is infamously confusing. And better query languages exist, right? Such as SQL, which famously doesn’t have problems.

Answer: Because it’s there.

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