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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. Was it worth it? by Animats · · Score: 0, Troll

    Before CSS, we had formatting with nested tables. After CSS, we had formatting with nested DIVs. Big deal. Plus absolute positioning, the big mistake. And layers, which are 10% useful and 90% annoying ads.

    Of course, now we have more "abstraction". Yeah, we have a macro system. Big deal.

    The real effect of CSS was to make web layout more complicated, so as to keep a role for programmers in web design. Otherwise, the artists would be in full control by now.

  2. That's 10 years of not using it! by NineNine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow! CSS has been son incredibly inconsequential, that I have gone 10 years, running income-producing web sites, with no CSS, whatsoever. That's pretty amazing, when you think about it, that CSS has made such a lack of impact.