>MS gave us CSS, a very handy technology, and a good way to separate >content from presentation.
A moment of history nitpicking tangent here... The original css specification -- the origins of the idea -- came from Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos. They were part of an original discussion in the W3C about possible style sheet languages to be incorporated into HTML back in 1994. They merged a couple of ideas to create the eventual standard. It was later in the final phases of the process that Stephen Pemberton and Thomas Reardon (from MS) were brought into the picture. With the release of IE3 the following year some elements of the new css standard were available, Opera followed about a year and a half later and then finally with IE5 for macintosh there was a browser with almost full support for the CSS1 standard. By this point, most of the major browser vendors had plans to bring broader CSS support in their next revisions of browser software. While I'd agree that MS help popularize CSS, I think it'd be a bit of stretch to say that they gave it to us. (There's always a heckler in every crowd, isn't there? ;) -bw. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bruce Wyman, Director of New Technologies Denver Art Museum / 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204 office: 720.913.0159 / fax: 720.913.0002 <bwyman at denverartmuseum.org>
