Ask HN: Who Invented CSS?

4 points by esac ↗ HN
Google suggests a person who suggested the idea, who was the first to implement it at a decent scale?

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I admit I'm horrible at CSS really design in general. But the inventor was and had to be a sadist
It's not that bad. What made is worse is that every browser is a little bit different and it needed to support mobile devices over time.
Could you point out specifically what aspects of CSS cause unnecessary pain?
iirc, IE5 for Mac's Tasman engine (1999/2000) was the first to showed what could be done w/ CSS when it's properly supported.

Edit: And yeah, it was Håkon Wium Lie who wrote the first draft, I think?