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CSS 2.1 Specification, W3C Working Draft was released on 11 April 2006.
CSS2 was released on 12th May 1998 and after almost 8 years, browsers (mainly IE) don’t comply with the standards. Even IE7 won’t comply with CSS2. 
Here’s an interesting reading from one blog - The Real Reason Microsoft Won’t Support CSS2 in IE7. I wonder when will browsers comply with CSS 2.1.
Here’s something from the draft specifications.
CSS 2.1 builds on CSS2 [CSS2] which builds on CSS1 [CSS1]. It supports media-specific style sheets so that authors may tailor the presentation of their documents to visual browsers, aural devices, printers, braille devices, handheld devices, etc. It also supports content positioning, table layout, features for internationalization and some properties related to user interface.
CSS 2.1 corrects a few errors in CSS2 (the most important being a new definition of the height/width of absolutely positioned elements, more influence for HTML’s “style” attribute and a new calculation of the ‘clip’ property), and adds a few highly requested features which have already been widely implemented. But most of all CSS 2.1 represents a “snapshot” of CSS usage: it consists of all CSS features that are implemented interoperably at the date of publication of the Recommendation.
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. About a year ago all that I knew was HTML. I knew that something like CSS exists. But never paid much attention to it and never realised how wonderful it is!! There are so many things that can be done with CSS and that too so easily! My initial impression was that CSS can at best reduce the size of my code by replacing all the attributes in the < font > tag or may be helpful if I need to change the colour scheme of the site. But realised later that its much more than that!! CSS can do things which plain HTML simply cannot!!
Here’s a description of CSS from Eric Meyer, one of the well know experts on CSS:
Cascading Style Sheets is a standard way to separate a document’s structure from its presentation. This sounds very abstract, but the benefits are quite surprising and profound. In theory, CSS makes one’s life easier by creating a centralized description of Web document appearance. Any Web designer will likely come up against a situation where he or she really should use them, and many will no doubt use CSS to do things they never could do before.
People, including me, have been using tables for desired layout of pages. It was so easy and so convenient! But it had its own drawbacks. Tables are not search engine friendly and bloat the sizes of the page! But CSS is far more powerful and capable of doing lots of things in a lot better way. The CSS Zen Garden is a great site that showcases the power of CSS. On that site the HTML code remains the same, but simply by changing the underlying CSS file, the entire looks are changed drastically!
In my opinion, CSS is a must learn thing for those who are even a little serious about designing web-pages. Whether a person designes pages as a profession or as a hobby, he simply can’t ignore CSS! W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) also recommends it. Here is W3C’s CSS section and here is its CSS Code Validator. CSS is too good to be missed and the first place to start learning it is W3Schools! See you there!
A freak accident later, now I am very much worried for my data.
I have (or may be had) a Samsung DVD-ROM. I put in a CD and started installing a software from it. In the middle of installation, I heard a shattering sound and installation stopped responding. I was wondering what happened and clicked on open tray button!
It was then that I realised that the sound was of breaking of the CD-ROM!! It got shatterred to pieces!! I removed as many pieces as I could. Later even opened the drive and removed more pieces. But some of the pieces are still stuck in there. I will have to give it to a service center.
However, the point here is - how safe is the data backed up on a CD/DVD? Fortunately, the CD-ROM that broke had come with a magazine and was only carrying installation files of some softwares. But if CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs can break this way in drives how unsafe the data really is!! This has happened for the first time with me. Till now, I used to think that if I take proper care of my CDs/DVDs, they will last a life time. But how wrong I was! Even if I have 3 copies, all can break! This freak accident has changed my outlook towards digital backup of data. I now realise the importance of keeping multiple copies of important data and have started fearing putting in important single copy CDs in the drives!
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