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
Read more about the history of CSS and the future, see what CSS is not and some imagery around CSS.
And if you do something to celebrate CSS, let me know!