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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. ACID2 Compliance by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "[I was] disappointed (but not surprised) that no browser on my computer correctly renders the Acid2 test."


    Time to get a new computer.

    Here's a list of ACID2 compliant browsers. It's longer than one might think.
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    1. 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.

    2. Re:ACID2 Compliance by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This outlines the problem. Safari has been "Fixed" so that the acid2 test renders correctly, yet still contains lots of rendering bugs. I would have to say as a web developer that I run into many more rendering bugs on Safari than I do on Firefox (although IE is the worst). I can probably code a browser that correctly renders the acid 2 test in 3 days. It won't render any other pages properly, but it will render the acid2 test.

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  2. 10 years old... by Kelson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and we're still waiting for a complete CSS2 implementation. Though to be fair, CSS2 is only 8.5 years old, and has been undergone a couple of minor revisions. I've seen good comparisons of browser support for CSS2 and CSS3. Anyone know of a good summary of current browsers' CSS1 support?

  3. 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.

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

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