Ask HN: Who Invented CSS?

4 points by esac 3 years ago | 4 comments

Google suggests a person who suggested the idea, who was the first to implement it at a decent scale?

slater 3 years ago |

iirc, IE5 for Mac's Tasman engine (1999/2000) was the first to showed what could be done w/ CSS when it's properly supported.

Edit: And yeah, it was Håkon Wium Lie who wrote the first draft, I think?

oddballdensity 3 years ago |

I admit I'm horrible at CSS really design in general. But the inventor was and had to be a sadist

HeckaSmart 3 years ago | |

It's not that bad. What made is worse is that every browser is a little bit different and it needed to support mobile devices over time.

andrei_says_ 3 years ago | |

Could you point out specifically what aspects of CSS cause unnecessary pain?