CSS Turns 10 Years Old

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.

ACID2 Compliance

[AKAImBatman]

"[I was] disappointed (but not surprised) that no browser on my computer correctly renders the Acid2 test."

Time to get a new computer [apple.com].

Here's a list [wikipedia.org] of ACID2 compliant browsers. It's longer than one might think.

10 years old...

[Kelson]

...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 [webdevout.net]. Anyone know of a good summary of current browsers' CSS1 support?

Re:10 years old...

[poot_rootbeer]

It's pretty poor IMO that a widespread standard such as CSS 2.0 still isn't implemented fully by any browser.

Maybe that's not only because browser developers have been lazy (IE) or preoccupied with rewriting the browser from the ground up (Netscape/Firefox) for the past 8.5 years, but also because CSS 2.0 is a convoluted, sloppily designed specification?

Uh oh

[sirnuke]

Uh oh [w3.org]
#navigation li Invalid number : text-shadow Property text-shadow doesn't exist : 0 2px 4px #000

Re:http://www.csszengarden.com/

[ewhac]

You did check the hundreds of other stylings of the same content, didn't you?

In case you didn't, here [csszengarden.com] are [csszengarden.com] a few [csszengarden.com] examples [csszengarden.com].

The point of the site is to illustrate how the exact same HTML file can be displayed in an infinite number of ways by simply changing the CSS. The site is essentially an argument for a semantic Web.

Schwab

Re:CSS turns 10, typographers still crying

[croddy]

The great thing about a personal computer is that I can customize the settings to my personal preferences. If, god help us all, you ever do find a way to embed typefaces in web pages, I'll be painlessly overriding your designs with black Bitstream Vera on a pale gray background.

I can't wait either.

Re:CSS turns 10, typographers still crying

[Aqua OS X]

Believe it or not, some graphic designers / typographers actually know what they hell they're doing; and they've been schooled to use typesetting to as a communication tool that can actually increase comprehension, legibility, reading speed, etc. Yet I can't necessarily say thats all, or the majority, of "graphic designers."

That said, yes, properly styled and typeset text needs to live and accessible. It's currently not (at least in any practical form), and that's the problem.