I was working with Reid lately on some CSS issues he was having with a new blog he was creating. It took a few days but we got through most of the issues that he wasn’t readily able to resolve. The design is one of my favorite kinds…very simple, clean but very nice looking. However, what struck me about working with Reid on this site was how complex CSS can really get. We didn’t touch on any of the really advanced “concepts” you can get into, but there was still a descent amount of training on CSS and Reid was in no way a newbie to css or web development.
Coming from the application development side of Computer Science has always made me think that CSS and html for that matter were really not “programming languages”. However, after this last week of work and just thinking about the amount of training skill it takes to go from zero to efficient with CSS, I’ve gained a new sense of respect for complexity of CSS.
