The CSS Monster Intro
As you probably already know, CSS is a distant cousin to the Boogey Man and lives under the beds of webmasters which explains why many of us spend so many hours on the computer in a constant state of sleep deprivation and caffeine intoxication.
For our peace of mind and health, we will yank the CSS Monster out from under the bed and into the blinding light so we can overcome our fear and hopefully be able to enjoy a full nights rest knowing that the CSS Monster is not so ugly and can actually be our friend, if we’ll let it.
CSS Background & History
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), was brought about by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and not by evil programmers with too much time on their hands as originally believed, to develop a standard which could be interpreted by different browsers. This became a necessity as Microsoft and Netscape battled for world domination and kept adding html attributes which were only understood by their browser. Great for them, bad for us.
CSS Evolution
Now, through the implementation of CSS, we can design ONE website for all browsers instead of multiple websites, one for each browser.
What started out as a way of standardizing the way code was displayed through basic things, like font and color tags, has quickly grown into something much more powerful, which makes sense because all of the not so evil programmers could now spend more time working on the one standard which could be understood by all browsers. Thus, is the beginning of the monster. Thus, is the evolution of the monster…
To be continued…
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