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| Why CSS Bugs Me |
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Susan |
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As most readers know, I'm a blogger. I'm in the process of redesigning the Dvorak Uncensored weblog, which means playing with its cascading style sheets, or CSS. The first time I heard of the cascading style sheet was in December of 1996, when the World Wide Web Consortium announced CSS1, telling the world that Microsoft, Adobe, Netscape and others were "among" the consortium members that would be adding support.
The idea behind CSS is a good one. With HTML, Web pages can become monstrosities of content and formatting information. To change the look of a site, you have to sift through the content to redo a lot of detailed information. It's painful. CSS was designed to separate the content from the formatting, so that when you want to change your site's look and feel, you simply change the formatting information.
CSS's real benefit was that the layout not only could be changed easily but also could become dynamic: The content is stored in a database and presented as necessary, with instant updates. With dynamic content, it's possible for 100 people to go to the same Web site and get 100 different versions. |
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