W3C celebrates the 10th birthday of CSS (cascading style sheets)

[mandy]

the W3C CSS 10th anniversary site: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS10/Overview.html

http://www.w3.org/ – 19 December 2006 – This year the World Wide Web Consortium proudly celebrates the ten years of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the technology designers use to create attractive, economical, and flexible Web sites.

“The design community has confirmed that using CSS promotes beauty while making it easier and less expensive to build sites, ” said Bert Bos, W3C Style Activity Lead and one of the original co-authors of the specification that became CSS level 1, published on 17 December 1996.

To celebrate this anniversary (dubbed CSS10), W3C invites developers to propose their favorite CSS designs for the CSS10 Gallery. Bert Bos and HÃ¥kon Lie, the other original co-author of CSS, will select designs for the gallery based on originality, utility, and aesthetics. We welcome proposals until December 2007; we expect to add to the gallery at least once monthly. Please send proposals to .

In addition, thanks to the efforts of users, developers, and translators, W3C has released a new version of the CSS validator in time for CSS10.

full article: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/css10-pressrelease.html