I am very much excited for the future of CSS. And I love that functions are a part of it.

I spent 3 months this year testing out a reporting system for large quantities of dynamic data.

My requirement was to generate pdf reports, but didn't want any reporting tools and installations. Especially something like Microsoft Excel, which the old system was based on.

After a lot of tests and proof-of-concept apps, I finally zeroed down to simple, pure, self contained html, that I am generating from a python script.

And it's glorious.

I am generating interactive charts when the html is viewed in the browser, and hiding all of them and only printing static svg images when in print mode, using css media print queries.

And there is so much more.

The format is awesome for ingestion by ai models.