"Cascading Style Sheets"
An degenerating technology, designed to seperate Content from Style, in webdesign, when most internet connections used 16k bits/sec dialup modems.
A good example of 'designed by committee'. It is now unwieldy, bloated, inefficient, fundamentally flawed, unnecessary, and a hinderence to progress.
Just like the Mac vs PC arguments, there are numerous loud fans of css, proving a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
An degenerating technology, designed to seperate Content from Style, in webdesign, when most internet connections used 16k bits/sec dialup modems.
A good example of 'designed by committee'. It is now unwieldy, bloated, inefficient, fundamentally flawed, unnecessary, and a hinderence to progress.
Just like the Mac vs PC arguments, there are numerous loud fans of css, proving a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
wanabee-geek: OMG, you can't use tables in your website. You should spend an extra week doing that 10minute job in CSS.
professional-geek:<sighs>
- i've got deadlines.
- my design works in ALL browsers, ever!
- its future proof.
wanabee-geek: yes butt, yes butt, with my hacks and my reverse exceptions, and a lot of time, i can do almost the same - and i can change the style across the entire site.
professional-geek:my clients have branding. my sites are dynamic. oh fuck it - get educated or drop dead!
professional-geek:<sighs>
- i've got deadlines.
- my design works in ALL browsers, ever!
- its future proof.
wanabee-geek: yes butt, yes butt, with my hacks and my reverse exceptions, and a lot of time, i can do almost the same - and i can change the style across the entire site.
professional-geek:my clients have branding. my sites are dynamic. oh fuck it - get educated or drop dead!
by BigJonMX February 16, 2012
Tired of Being Sexy. Named after the Brazilian band Cansei de Ser Sexy, which means tired of being sexy.
by Spencer Bargas March 3, 2008
Cascading StyleSheets is a webdesign language used as an extension of XHTML. CSS is meant to define the appearance of a website, while it's structure is defined by HTML. It is thus called because it uses stylesheets, external files whose properties are applied to the relevent sections of a website. They are 'cascading' because of the CSS rule of specificity.
CSS allows us to apply standard formatting to an entire website. We could, say, apply the selector "title" to every title, and then define it as bold in the external stylesheet. In this way, changing a single line in a single file will update the entire website.
by Pathoschild March 21, 2005
Acronym for Controlled Substance Salesperson, which is the politically correct term for one that distributes controlled substances such as marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin, or any other substance clandestinely referred to as "that shit".
Dad: I WANT YOU HOME NOW!
Son: omg stfu! oh.... wait, my CSS is calling
Dad: Your wut??
Son: My dealer, fool! NOW STFU! *click*
Son: omg stfu! oh.... wait, my CSS is calling
Dad: Your wut??
Son: My dealer, fool! NOW STFU! *click*
by Frozay October 21, 2011
by JinxHex January 13, 2012
Content Scrambling System, meant to make sure DVD videos could not be copied or played in DVD players that were not manufactured in their respective countries. See Macrovision, Intellectual Property.
I spent thirty Euros on this DVD about the Bush Administration's corruption, and it won't play in the United States -- it must be the CSS.
by Vash Westland August 26, 2003
by Dan July 4, 2003