“The root of all margin-collapsing evil”

I liked this page I just learned of called Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS. It might not mean much to you if you don’t write CSS, but could be fun to check out if you do. Here are some choice quotes: border-radius should have been corner-radius. It shouldn’t be !important — that reads to engineers as “not important”. We should have picked another way to write this. white-space: nowrap should be white-space: no-wrap. It reminded me of a similar list called Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names. Here’s one example: U+02C7 CARON U+030C COMBINING CARON The “caron” should have been called hacek and combining hacek. The term “caron” is suspected by some to be an invention of some early standards body, but it has also been claimed by others to have been in use at Linotype before the days of digital typography. Its true origin may be lost in the mists of time. These are great because they simply say “this is how we messed up.” They are succinct and candid about problems.…