Old-CSS-new-CSS-fuzzy-notepad #

Old CSS, new CSS / fuzzy notepad #

Created: February 2, 2020 8:00 AM URL: https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/ I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. I’ve been taking for granted that most folks doing web stuff still remember those days, or at least the decade that followed, but I think that assumption might be a wee bit out of date. Here’s a history of CSS and web design, as I remember it. You may want to try the W3C’s history of CSS, which is considerably shorter, has a better chance of matching reality, and contains significantly less swearing.) My favorite artifact of this era is the book that taught me HTML: O’Reilly’s HTML: The Definitive Guide, published in several editions in the mid to late 90s. I don’t have it any more and can’t readily find screenshots online, but here’s a page from HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, which seems to be a revision (I’ll get to XHTML later) with much the same style. Partly because this is a guidebook introducing concepts one at a time; partly because the book was printed in black and white; and partly, I’m sure, because it reflected the reality that coloring anything was a huge pain in the ass.