Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition

Foreword 2005

Watson and Crick. Fred and Ginger. Bert and Håkon. The first of these immortal duos cracked the secret of life. The second pair dazzled Depression-era audiences with gravity defying dance routines that remain the very icon of charm and grace. As for the third pair – the authors of the book you now hold in your hands – the achievement that ensures their immortality benefits everyone who uses the Web or creates content for it.

For it was Bert and Håkon’s gift, not only to recognize the Web’s importance long before many of us had so much as heard the word “modem,” but also to recognize the danger posed by the medium’s lack of a standard visual formatting language which could be abstracted from the semantics of a page’s structure and ...