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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.

  3. Re:ACID2 Compliance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    switcheur \'swi`ch &r\, n.
    A person who thinks that they are a Mac user but are really just trying to be. The mistake they make is to try to become a Mac user, when real Mac users are all about not trying to be anything and following your own rules. There is no fashion code to being a Mac user. There are no rules as to what applications you have to run.

    Recent converts like you are ruining the old school Mac community because you are posers. Apple releases one OS that popularizes Fitts' law and the Genie effect, and suddenly people assume being a Mac user is all about owning a Mac. But a real Mac user is born, not made. You "switchers" are misrepresenting yourselves and the Mac platform. You're giving people the wrong idea of what Macintosh is.

    switcheur: shops at hot topic, thinks Firefox is a good Mac app, waiting for OS X port of PayrollPro 2000, follows any hint of a fashion trend (instead of setting them!), wouldn't know Clarus from Carl Sagan.

    real Mac user: someone true to who they are, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world.