CSS naked day

Thursday 5 April 2007 — This is close to 18 years old. Be careful.

Today is CSS Naked Day, so I’ve removed the CSS stylesheets from this site. It’s a demonstration of both the power of CSS (look how plain the site looks without it), and its flexibility (see how the pages are still usable).

Looking at these pages without their styles, there’s a number of infelicities, but they’re good enough, and the styles will be back tomorrow.

Technicality: there are a few style= attributes on these pages still, and the comment form has styles aplenty. Tough.

Comments

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Tim 8:43 AM on 5 Apr 2007
You're site degrades to no CSS very well IMO. Even looks nice in a console browser. Good work!
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Bernard Farrell 9:41 AM on 5 Apr 2007
Grrr,

The link you gave is blocked at work. Probably because of the Naked in the title. Doh.

CSS, when used well, is truly amazing. In the Web Developer Toolbar extension for Firefox you can turn off all the styles for a page. It's always amazing to me what something looks like when you remove the CSS.
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Pete 11:13 AM on 5 Apr 2007
Hate to say it, but I like it better without the CSS. :-P

Your blog is unusually nice & clean with the style, but this is far more readable. Then again, I'm one of those people who sets their minimum font size to 12, so go figure.
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susan senator 11:46 AM on 5 Apr 2007
Ew, Ned, I think it looks ugly and plain.

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