20 Years of CSS
On December 17, 1996, W3C published the first standard for CSS. And
thus from December 17, 2016 until one year later, CSS is 20 years
old.
- Håkon & Bert present ‘CSS Reset’ at CSS Day
- IDPF & W3C join to develop e-book standards
- 20th anniversary of CSS level 1
- CSS Intro course, a MOOC on W3Cx
- First draft of 2nd revision of CSS level 2
- Philae lands on comet 67P
- W3C creates the Digital Publishing IG
- W3C Recommendation for WOFF 1.0
- Final version of jlreq
- MapCSS, CSS-like styles for maps
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
- First draft of WOFF 1.0
- caniuse.com (‘Can I use?’) browser support tables
- LESS CSS pre-processor
- JavaFX CSS, CSS-like styles for GUIs
- Microsoft & Monotype open the EOT format
- EPUB 2.0 standard released
- Fuji CSS Validator released (more)
- Sass CSS pre-processor
- W3C Print Symposium in Heidelberg
- Qt Style Sheets, CSS-like styles for GUIs
- Acid2 test by Håkon Lie & Ian Hickson
- Summer Olympics in Athens
- Dave Shea launches the CSS Zen Garden
- First draft of revised CSS level 2.
- W3C Recommendation of XSL 1.0
- W3C Recommendation of SVG 1.0
- Start of Wikipedia
- First 3 CSS3 drafts: Color Profiles, Multi-column layout, and Paged Media
- CSS1 Test Suite (press release) with Todd Fahrner's Box Acid Test
- W3C revises CSS level 1 Recommendation
- Google is founded
- W3C publishes CSS level 2 Recommendation; read the press release
- First beta of CSS Validator announced.
- First Public Working Draft of CSS Level 2 (CSS2); read the press release
- W3C Recommendation of CSS level 1; read the press release
- MSIE 3 browser, with support for CSS
- Birth of Dolly the sheep
- Experimental support for CSS in W3C's Arena browser
- W3C Workshop on Style Sheets in Rocquencourt, France
- Release of Windows 95
- Håkon's e-mail to www-talk@w3.org
And if you do something to celebrate CSS, let me know!
