Notes from the Decade of Style panel.

  • Panel
    • Chris Wilson worked on Mosaic, CSS in IE3+
    • Doug Bowman
    • Molly Holzschlag, WaSP lead
    • Eric Meyer, CSS guru
  • Key Events
    • CSS Zen garden
  • Biggest Missing Piece?
    • Wilson says need a comprehensive CSS test suite
    • Bowman says need variables & constants in CSS
    • Holzschlag says a reliable WSIWYG editor
  • Has the working group lost its way?
    • Wilson thinks it has too tough a challenge
    • Holzschlag thinks W3C has “lost its way”
  • Hardest part of CSS?
    • Wilson (an MSIE engineer) admits “with IE7, we know we dont get everything right; big surprise”
    • He says backwards-compatability is the hardest thing
    • Holzschlag says teaching people to design with CSS and not just know its syntax is the hardest part.
  • How does CSS differ from designing in general?
    • Bowman says CSS is not fundamentally a design tool, it is a tool for implementing design.