April 13, 2001

7:24 AM

JavaScript Style Sheets:the CSS that "coulda been". This brief read offers up an explanation as to why CSS support in Netscape 4.x is Quite Awful.
posted by hijinx (2 comments total)

Interesting read. Whereas I had just chalked up the poor implementation of CSS due to timing, it kind of interested me to learn that it was due to the downing of a proposed standard, and the final solution was really poorly executed.

[The article linked is also of note for its "insane" use of "quotation marks" throughout the "document".]
posted by hijinx at 7:26 AM on April 13, 2001

I suspect English is not the native language of the author. There are case mismatches and other grammatic issues.

This really lights a bulb. Ah, so that's why! I'm almost more impressed -- it being such an obvious kludge -- that it works at all.
posted by dhartung at 8:59 AM on April 13, 2001