IE 8 Readiness Toolkit

from Microsoft:

"CSS 2.1 Compliance

Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing, positioning) to Web documents. Before the introduction of CSS, stylistic properties were set directly within HTML through different attributes. With CSS, authors may separate a page’s data specified via HTML from the display logic, thus improving markup organization and facilitating easier site maintenance."
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I have never heard of CSS described as a simple mechanism for adding style to web documents.  There seems to be a connation of CSS being of lesser importance or "its not that difficult."  If it were that simple Microsoft, do you think you could add better support for web standards into your shiney new VS 2008 IDE?  Or maybe better educate the developers that are drinking your koolaid that they need to understand the basics of web standards and how to use CSS?  As a designer with a solid grasp on effectively using CSS in applications and websites I recently receieved a link to this article from a .Net developer while working on a project.  After opening up the link I was left with total disappointment asking myself what I was really supposed to do with this resource???!!  From reading the drab text on how to use master pages to finding links to REAL CSS sources outside of Microsoft!  In return, I sent the developer a few links to more informative resources.
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