Cascading styles

- This period as CSS emerged, probably '96, '97 in particular there was sort of this sense that the approach of the table base layout hacks, just they weren't the right way to do this. There had to be a better way. - By using CSS people were able to get equivalent layouts without tons of markup tricks. Typify their markup, make it better. - It was a gold rush era with CSS. It was kind of this big boom. We could leave HTML tables as layout if we could only find ways of using CSS floats to make layouts and so everyone was trying everything to make great layouts. - CSS was the ability to do things smarter. This ability to define one single look and feel in one place and apply that to all your documents was fantastic. - These were the sorts of things that started exciting people, because they meant that web technologies like CSS took us beyond what tables could do. - One of the things that we've seen. Browser developers understand is that once there's a need identified this stuff slowly…