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Bert Bos, noting today as quite a notable day:

On December 17, 1996, W3C published the first standard for CSS.

Very interesting to see what historic points made the cut for the timeline. The Zen Garden, acid tests, preprocessors… …

Jeremy Keith released a new book, for free, on the web only:

This is not a handbook. It’s more like a history book.

Today, CSS doesn’t really have any competitors. We might compile another language to get it, or apply it in unusual ways, but ultimately styling happens on the web through CSS.

But before CSS cemented itself, there was RRP, PWP, …