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Tech HistoryDeep Dive October 3, 2026 8 min read

CSS: Separating Web Content from Presentation

Trace CSS from 1994 proposals through the 1996 CSS1 Recommendation, cascading design, browser competition, and the modular standard used today.

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Tech HistoryDeep Dive October 3, 2026 8 min read

How Netscape's browser scripting language moved from a fast product launch to Ecma standardization and a shared specification for competing browsers.

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Tech HistoryDeep Dive October 3, 2026 7 min read

How the W3C XML Working Group reduced SGML's complexity for Web interchange, reached Recommendation status in 1998, and enabled a family of formats.

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