The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
08/02/2017
The history of all the languages which almost became CSS and the development of the styled web.
When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How a given HTML tag was rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences. To many, it seemed like a good idea to create a standard way for pages to ‘suggest’ how they might prefer to be rendered stylistically.
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