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SHOULD CSS BE CONSTRAINTS?

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CSS is hard, and the rules can be quite complex. It is currently hard to predict what CSS will result in. One commonly-proposed replacement for CSS is a constraint system. However, with constraint-based systems, it is possible to have more than or less than one layout that satisfies the rules. Predictability suffers again once you have complicated constraints and conflict handling rules.