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Does anyone know which browser gave us the 8px margin on the body element?
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For context, IE3 was the first commercial browser with CSS. That's 1996. Then Netscape 4 added some support. Before either of those, CSS was being tested in Argo & Arena… How far back does it go??? w3.org/Style/CSS20/history.html
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Even earlier – web.archive.org/web/19980130185434/http://www.verso.com/agitprop/corestyle/base.html lol, 'last modified' in the future! (this was archived in Jan 1998) "This is a work in progress, last modified <script>document.write(document.lastModified);</script>06/17/2022 22:03:39<noscript>quite recently</noscript> GMT."
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"The Base Stylesheet describes the "consensus default" rendering of all HTML 4.0 elements in Mosaic-derivative Web browsers (Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer). It … captures the status quo in order to move beyond it."
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"The escape of the Mosaic Browser Default Stylesheet (MBDS) virus from the scientific community at CERN has produced Web generations of mutant tools and authors who misapply markup solely to invoke certain MBDS effects." That style likely predates CSS!
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If you enjoyed that, I highly recommend checking out: - worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ - line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html also at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, but why not use line-mode? All the style proposals: w3.org/Style/History/ Especially the one from Håkon Lie…