wheresrhys

This blog has taken a ridiculously nerdy turn of late, and the nerdiness continues right here.

It’s a simple, though nerdy question:

I write cascading stylesheets, for which CSS is an acronym. What is the language I use in these cascading stylesheets? Surely not CSS, for that is the name of the document. For example in PHP, you write a PHP script, you don’t write a PHP – there’s a subtle but important difference in the names. Even in the one programming language that could somehow bridge the gap, Javascript, you still write a javascript script.

It gets nerdier

Quoting from the W3 site:

This short tutorial is meant for people who want to start using CSS and have never written a CSS style sheet before.

In it’s un-acronymed form:

This short tutorial is meant for people who want to start using cascading stylesheets  and have never written a cascading stylesheets style sheet before.

This would indicate that a cascading stylesheets style sheet is a type of style sheet. But a novel is a kind of book, though it isn’t written in ‘Novel’, so it doesn’t enable us to deduce that the name of the language of style sheets is, somewhat clumsily, Cascading stylesheets.

I’m not seriously suggesting that CSS does of the utmost importance need a proper name, but I think the web design community could easily adopt a three word name with the same acronym.

I say easily, but I’ve failed to think of one. I think it shoudl have selectors in it though.