Cascading Style Sheets

Someone on the Drupal Dev list asked what to do when his custom module's CSS wasn't showing up. This is the quick checklist I sent in reply:

In order:

0. Make extra-sure your module's enabled on admin/build/modules

1. Check your drupal_add_css() call. Should look roughly like:
drupal_add_css(drupal_get_path('module', 'MYMODULE') .'/css/MYMODULE.css');

2. Make sure you're doing drupal_add_css() inside hook_init()

So I'm over on codinghorror reading a blog by one of the Stack Overflow guys about how CSS is super limited. Jeff hits us with a couple examples of how CSS falls short and then goes on to explore a couple Ruby gems that supposedly shine up the giant turds that are cascading stylesheets.

Jeff's 3 problems with CSS are:

1. Vertical alignment is a giant, hacky PITA.
2. Lack of variables so we have to repeat colors all over the place.