I came across an interesting CSS library the other day, awsm.css. It’s a CSS library with no classes. Its focus is providing nice styles for semantic elements (i.e. not for <div> or <span>).
It sounds like the motivating use case was wanting to style stuff coming out of e.g. Markdown.
Your HTML source can read like 1995, but look prettier!
Safari and Opera understand CSS files mistakenly sent with a text/plain MIME type. Gecko browsers, on the other hand, do not. Don’t ask how I learned this.
You can’t possibly consider yourself an expert wielder of HTML and CSS unless you’ve read this excellent history, explication, and analysis of CSS hacks. Even master practitioners of Wilbur need to read it. Especially master practitioners of Wilbur.
I was intrigued by the suggestion that hacks are supposed to look ugly to discourage you from using them. Bit of an ex post facto rationalization, I think!
Paul commented on Tue Sep 26 09:21:46 2006:
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Zeldman also includes a capsule history and colophon.
TiddlyWiki is one of the most impressive Javascript apps I’ve ever seen. It’s a pure client-side wiki. You can edit navigation, do live searching, and save to disk. There are some rough edges, mostly due to the awkwardness of using a browser as a document editor. But wow.