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There's nothing more satisfying than to see a good plant flourish. I believe CSS to be a "good plant." And it's really satisfying to see that it's taken root on the web so very well. I'm sure we all recall a time when browser support was not as good, making publishers hesitant to employ the technology on "production" sites. Visiting various web sites, blogs, and wikis over the last couple of years, I've been delighted to see the variety in styles and the beauty of CSS shine through. The w3c web site's own look has improved nicely over that time

Imagine this: overnight, the W3C makes CSS3 a standard, and the browsers end their differences (IE included) and support everything in CSS3. How will this affect you? What magical things that CSS3 offers will bring your webpages to life? For instance, CSS3 gives us cross–browser opacity, standardized Image Replacement (via display: icon), and automatic box and text shadows, not to mention being able to control the resizing of a window through CSS. And there’s a lot more where that came from. But then you wake up and realize that complete

There are few things as sweet as a promise kept, and nothing so bitter as one that isn't. In 1996, style sheets promised us incredible opportunities for control over Web document presentation. But that promise has been only partially fulfilled, making our relationship with style sheets bittersweet. Style sheets are advantageous in that they let you manage, update, and change large sites easily, and elegantly control visual effects. Documents become more streamlined and manageable when designers effectively separate presentation from Web

The XHTML 2 specification isn't finished, but it already has many advantages over XHTML 1, including a greater structural richness that will make it more viable than its predecessor as an editorial format to serve as the central schema for a single-source publishing system. Without waiting for browser support of the new user interface features in XHTML 2, people who do large- or small-scale publishing can start to use these new features now. About a year ago, an industry standards group asked me to do a presentation on how XHTML 2 might be useful to