{"id":28197,"date":"2017-11-08T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28197"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:25:07","slug":"a-look-back-at-the-history-of-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/08\/a-look-back-at-the-history-of-css\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at the History of CSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apple.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/08\/a-look-back-at-the-history-of-css\/apple-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apple.png?fit=512%2C430&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"512,430\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"apple\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apple.png?fit=512%2C430&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28198\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apple-500x420.png?resize=500%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot of Apple.com website\" width=\"500\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apple.png?resize=500%2C420&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apple.png?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/look-back-history-css\/\">A Look Back at the History of CSS<\/a>&#8221; is a nice trip down the history lane as to where and how CSS came about.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine these days that CSS wasn&#8217;t always around and the web looked like whatever your browser decided to make it look like.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>&#8220;A Look Back at the History of CSS&#8221; is a nice trip down the history lane as to where and how CSS came about.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine these days that CSS wasn&#8217;t always around and the web looked like whatever your browser decided to make it look like.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A Look Back at the History of CSS #WebDev #WebDesign #CSS #history #browsers","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[20,1517,286,1157,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-browsers","tag-css","tag-history","tag-web-design","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;A Look Back at the History of CSS&quot; is a nice trip down the history lane as to where and how CSS came about. 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