--- title: HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML | daily.dev description: The DOM has become bloated with over 350 properties per node and 660 CSS properties, making it unsuitable for modern web applications. CSS's inside-out layout... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/html-is-dead-long-live-html-eosa0ydut twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML | daily.dev og:description: The DOM has become bloated with over 350 properties per node and 660 CSS properties, making it unsuitable for modern web applications. CSS's inside-out layout... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/html-is-dead-long-live-html-eosa0ydut og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EoSa0yDUT.png og:image:alt: HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML **[Acko.net](https://daily.dev/sources/acko)** · 16 min read · 130 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary The DOM has become bloated with over 350 properties per node and 660 CSS properties, making it unsuitable for modern web applications. CSS's inside-out layout model creates complexity, while features like flexbox require speculative layout passes that can cause performance issues. The author argues for rethinking web UI from first principles, proposing simpler layout models that separate concerns and provide better primitives for building applications. Current proposals like HTML-in-Canvas are insufficient because they don't address the fundamental architectural problems of the web platform. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ronaldroe** · 16 upvotes > This dude's website is a masterclass in how NOT to do typography. If you don't have *better than* 20/20 vision, good luck reading the minuscule body type without a magnifying glass or breaking the layout by zooming. It has the right 80 character width, which is great, but that's pointless if your font size is so small you can't discern one letter from another. **@noricode** · 14 upvotes > Real HTML has never been tried **@nagolorange\_yt** · 7 upvotes > Gotta be rage bait **@jazzgang** · 2 upvotes > HTML WILL NEVER DIE **@vigneshwaran94** · 1 upvotes > HTML is still the face of everything --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#dom](https://daily.dev/tags/dom), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/html-is-dead-long-live-html-eosa0ydut) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/html-is-dead-long-live-html-eosa0ydut","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/html-is-dead-long-live-html-eosa0ydut"},"datePublished":"2025-08-06T05:53:13.021Z","dateModified":"2026-06-25T02:13:51.395Z","description":"The DOM has become bloated with over 350 properties per node and 660 CSS properties, making it unsuitable for modern web applications. 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