An older article recently dug up talks about CSS in a rather negative light:"In his book "Cascading Style Sheets", Eric Meyer (no relation) says that CSS is easy to use.
I don't agree.
CSS uses a complex "cascade" to determine which rules apply to an element - something that takes fifteen pages in a book to explain.
As a result, there is no good authoring tool experience for CSS. Instead of direct manipulation, drag and drop, and visual design surfaces, web designers working with CSS must crack open their code-editors and start typing in text
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are an elegantly designed extension to the Web and one of the greatest hopes for recapturing the Web's ideal of separation of presentation and content. The Web is the ultimate cross-platform system, and your content will be presented on such a huge variety of devices that pages should specify the meaning of the information and leave presentation details to a merger (or "cascade") of site-specified style sheets and the user's preferences. If the introduction of WebTV broke your pages, you will appreciate the ability to
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are an elegantly designed extension to the Web and one of the greatest hopes for recapturing the Web's ideal of separation of presentation and content. The Web is the ultimate cross-platform system, and your content will be presented on such a huge variety of devices that pages should specify the meaning of the information and leave presentation details to a merger (or "cascade") of site-specified style sheets and the user's preferences. If the introduction of WebTV broke your pages, you will appreciate the ability to
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