March 30, 2001

Cascading Style Sheet Hell

CSS is a really great addition to the insanity that is the World Wide Web, but it can be infuriating.

Why couldn't Netscape's development team decided on one standard to go by? Why did their CSS compliance have to suck so badly?

It's pretty clear that most people who were (and still are) adamant Netscape users did so because of their own anti-Microsoft sentiments. Let's face it, if MSIE were manufactured by anyone else, it would likely be universally accepted. Sad.

The loser in the 'browser wars' is every poor soul who has to design a web page to look near-similar for as many popular browsers as possible.

Like me.

Damn.