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CSS in the real world

30th September 2002

Adrian Holovaty: CSS in the real world. Adrian uses CSS to reduce the markup for a list of news headlines by 75%:

Which code would you rather work in when there are four breaking news stories on the wire simultaneously and millions of readers are flooding your site, expecting up-to-the-minute updates?

Posted 30th September 2002 at 12:27 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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