10 Years of CSS
In 2006, 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. In these pages you will find history and highlights from 10 years with style.
- 19 December 2006
- World Wide Web Consortium Celebrates Ten Years with Style
- 18 December 2006
- Fuji CSS Validator released (more)
- 17 December 2006
- CSS level 1 is 10 years old.
- 2 August 2002
- First draft of revised CSS level 2.
- 22 June 1999
- Drafts of first three CSS3 modules published: Color Profiles, Multi-column layout, and Paged Media Properties.
- 29 January 1999
- W3C announces CSS1 Test Suite; read the press release
- 11 January 1999
- W3C revises CSS level 1 Recommendation
- 12 May 1998
- W3C publishes CSS level 2 Recommendation; read the press release
- 30 March 1998
- First beta of CSS Validator announced.
- 4 November 1997
- First Public Working Draft of CSS Level 2 (CSS2); read the press release
- 17 December 1996
- W3C publishes CSS level 1 Recommendation (CSS1); read the press release
- 6-7 November 1995
- W3C Workshop on Style Sheets in Rocquencourt, France
For more history, see chapter 20 of the book Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web, by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos.