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CSS naked day

April 5th, 2007

Update: everything is back to normal. If you want to have a feeling of how things looked like on April 5th, try to disable the stylesheet from your browser (I know at least Firefox can do it: view/page style/no style).

No, your browser has not gone berzerk. No, reloading will not change the result. Today is CSS naked day. I have turned the stylesheet off. It will be back tomorrow (if I do not mess it up in the process).

I am learning CSS at the moment, so I can tweak my theme (or maybe build a new one from scratch) without the dreadful consequences of ignorant tampering, and I really must aknowledge how powerful it is.

CSS naked day is a way to pay tribute to web standards.

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5 Responses to “CSS naked day”

  1. Maria Says:

    Oh! You and Lorelle tempted me to strip Mafe Maria, and she’s really pretty naked… But I’m late to the party and have a busy day to fool around with my stylesheets. Lame excuse, but I’ll try to join next year.

    CSS: I love you!

  2. mandarine Says:

    How about having next year’s CSS naked day as a user-based choice instead of a webmaster-based one? Firefox allows to get rid of the stylesheet (I’ve just seen MafeMaria naked!) and it will save the trouble to beginners (like me) or busy webmasters (like you).

  3. Maria Says:

    I agree. For users unaware of (or lacking) that browser feature, webmasters could enable a button that lets users turn CSS off, see the naked beauty, and then return to the CSS world. I gotta tell you: I’ve been revisiting several posts in your site today and although everything is readable and well structured, I’m going nuts and want the CSS back on! I suspect though that this is precisely the point of CSS Naked Day: Make us suffer and truly appreciate CSS!

  4. Emily Says:

    It seems from my limited and Luddite-based experience, MACs strip people naked like this all the time. Am I right?

  5. mandarine Says:

    Maria: I’d love that feature when I am just fishing for content and want a fast-loading page with only the essential data. Unfortunately, I have tried with a couple of sites beside yours yesterday and all I can say is that fewer sites than I thought are standards-compliant.

    Emily: I am not aware of this. Sometimes, it’s just failure to load a file and it comes back to normal after reloading the page.

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