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Article: Style sheets, Take 2.(Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 becomes W3C standard) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
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- Network World
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- July 27, 1998
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently elevated Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2) to Recommendation status, a quick move that indicates just how important this specification is to Web developers.
CSS2 was a Proposed Recommendation for only two months. The W3C raises technologies to Recommendation status if they are stable, contribute to interoperability, are supported widely and achieve consensus among consortium members.
The CSS specification in general makes it possible for authors and readers to attach style specifications such as fonts, colors, attributes and spacing to HTML documents. Intranet managers, for example, can place a CSS file on a Web ...