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CSS Turns 10 Years Old

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the celebrating-in-style dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cascading Style Sheets celebrate their tenth anniversary this week. The W3C put together the CSS10 site in recognition of this milestone with a Hall of Fame, essays from the past decade, a gallery, and more." I was glad to see the CSS Zen Garden selected for the Hall of Fame, and disappointed (but not surprised) that no browser on my computer correctly renders the Acid2 test.

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  1. A little ironic? by iamjoltman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it just me, or is it a little ironic that the page that celebrates 10 years of CSS is so bland looking?

  2. Wow! by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 5, Funny

    PNG was almost 10 years old when IE finally supported it! Maybe this means that IE8* will have CSS! Hurray!

    *IE8 is expected to debut sometime in late 2018.

    1. Re:Wow! by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thank you. My joke wasn't nearly clumsy enough on its own, I needed someone completely oblivious to sarcasm to come along and add that part in.

  3. Re:CSS or CS:S? by Ingolfke · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not up on the finer points out the definitions for "nerd" and "geek" but it would seem to me that if your first thought about a core web technology like CSS was about Counter Strike your more likely to be a loser then a nerd... maybe a nerdy loser.

  4. 10 years by wumpus188 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and still no vertical centering. </rant>

  5. http://www.csszengarden.com/ by Brummund · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yay, yet another bunch of web pages with light grey text on white background! Just what the world needed.

    Come on guys, it might be valid CSS, but it is not easy on the eyes.

  6. Re:ACID2 Compliance by catbutt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Although you could start using Safari, I have found a better compromise.

    I use Firefox for day to day browsing. But every so often, when I find the need to view the sublime smiley face image in all its glory, I fire up Safari for just that. It serves my needs, since I really only need to see the smily image maybe once a day or so.

  7. Re:ACID2 Compliance by egomaniac · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hell, I can create a web browser that will render Acid2 correctly in five minutes.

    Step 1: Retrieve Acid2 HTML
    Step 2: Completely ignore it and display a screen shot of the correct rendering

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    ZFS: because love is never having to say fsck
  8. Re:ACID2 Compliance by Drooling+Iguana · · Score: 2, Funny

    Flash.

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    ... I'm addicted to placebos
  9. Heh, those funny typos by scdeimos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice to know that not even W3C can afford to spell check everything: teached CSS. It's not just /. editors! :)

  10. Re:ACID2 Compliance by badpazzword · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because they wrote specific hacks, just to be able to pass the test. Because most browsers need specific hacks, just to be able to render regular web pages.
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    When ideas fail, words become very handy.