Design and Usability Discussion

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History of CSS

While the use of CSS is now considered "best practices," the idea of a "style sheet" has been around for a long time. Programs, such as Microsoft Word, Adobe PageMaker, and other desktop publishing programs allow users to create styles for uniform formatting in one document or throughout a group of documents. Even for the web, there were design documents of how CSS should work years before the browsers caught up. For many years, web developers didn't use CSS because they couldn't count on the browsers to show the web pages correctly. Instead, it was easier for web developers to use HTML tags for design.

Italics: Since the explosion of the use of personal computers, italics have been one text formatting feature that has been easy to use. Does the use of italics to make text stand out help this paragraph?

History of CSS

While the use of CSS is now considered "best practices," the idea of a "style sheet" has been around for a long time. Programs, such as Microsoft Word, Adobe PageMaker, and other desktop publishing programs allow users to create styles for uniform formatting in one document or throughout a group of documents. Even for the web, there were design documents of how CSS should work years before the browsers caught up. For many years, web developers didn't use CSS because they couldn't count on the browsers to show the web pages correctly. Instead, it was easier for web developers to use HTML tags for design.

Bold and Italics: Does this formatting help the readability of the page?

History of CSS

While the use of CSS is now considered "best practices," the idea of a "style sheet" has been around for a long time. Programs, such as Microsoft Word, Adobe PageMaker, and other desktop publishing programs allow users to create styles for uniform formatting in one document or throughout a group of documents. Even for the web, there were design documents of how CSS should work years before the browsers caught up. For many years, web developers didn't use CSS because they couldn't count on the browsers to show the web pages correctly. Instead, it was easier for web developers to use HTML tags for design.

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