March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
13h 5m
English
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Preface
CSS was proposed in 1994 and first implemented (partially) by Internet Explorer 3 in 1996. It was somewhere around that time I discovered the wonderful View Source button and realized all the secrets of a web page were there for me to decipher in plain text. I taught myself HTML and CSS by playing in a text editor and seeing what worked. It was a fun excuse to spend as much time as possible on the internet.
In the meantime, I needed to find a real career. I went on to earn a degree in Computer Science. Little did I know that the two would come crashing together in the 2000s as the concept of “web developer” emerged.
I’ve been in tune with CSS since the very beginning. Even when I’m working, it’s play. I’ve worked on the back end and the ...