CSS, only around for 2 yrs?

[richcleverley]

HI all,

I saw a program on the BBC at the weekend talking about web accessibility, a web designer on the program said that CSS had only been around for "a couple of years". What was she talking about. It's been around for far longer as we all know.

Anyway, here's a link to the text version of the report.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6090418.stm

Richard

 

[Stretchwickster]

CSS had been around officially since about 1996!

Clive

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[richcleverley]

I know, that's why I wondered what she was on about!!

Richard

 

[Wullie]

The web designer was probably picked at random and not for any specific skillset.

Hope this helps

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[richcleverley]

Yes, but surely any web designer should know that css has been around for longer than a couple of years!!

As for the statement that most web designers still hard code colours directly in the html, surely not nowadays, certainly if they are serious about their work.

Richard

 

[ChrisHunt]

What she probably meant was "it's only a couple of years since I heard of CSS".

CSS has been around for a long time, though to be fair it's only relatively recently that it's become practical to use CSS to lay out pages on production sites. Even that goes back 4 or 5 years though.

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[richcleverley]

Maybe it's just me getting over sensitive when the media uses so called experts to talk about things they don't understand properly.

I had even heard of css before I started in webdesign, when I was a network manager.

Oh well,

Richard

 

[ecobb]

Perhaps you should contact the BBC and express your concerns to them. I'm sure they would be interested to know that their "expert" doesn't know much. Who knows, they may decide to pick you as a replacement.

Hope This Helps!

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[richcleverley]

Did that (does that make me sad?). Anyway, they haven't replied yet, not that I thought they would.

Richard

 

[harrymossman]

Every time I have seen anything in the media about which I had personal knowledge, the media account has been seriously inaccurate.

During the bad, pre-iPod Apple period, I went to a Mac conference. There was a reporter there from the San Francisco Chronicle. He clearly had already decided that Apple was dead. He expected that we would all be depressed. He just wanted quotes to support his preconception.

I told him that Apple was going to survive, that Gates would buy it that day if he could. This is a year before Gates invested lots of money in Apple.

The reporter just shook his head. The next day, on the front page, his story talked about how I was a Mac fanatic in deep denial.

He never bothered to ask if I was a Mac fanatic. If he had, I would have said "No. I use a Mac at home and a PC at work. I'm very involved in the local PC users group. I'm not a partisan at all."

So, I just laughed when I read the story.