Re: The Netscape / Microsoft / Future Quagmire

Peter Flynn writes:

 >    That's correct.  Microsoft are, as far as I was aware, members of the
 >    W3C although I don't know exactly when they joined and whether that was in
 >    time to have any input on CSS or not.
 > 
 > I think (but am happy to be corrected) that Hakon did the work on CSS
 > while he was still at CERN...

The work on CSS was started at CERN and a first draft was published in
October 94 [1]. W3C was being formed around the same time. Arround a
year later, we had a workshop on style sheets in Paris [2] and this
was where commercial interest first showed up.

[1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People/howcome/p/cascade.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/951106_Workshop/

Regards,

-h&kon

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Received on Saturday, 2 November 1996 14:19:35 UTC