I can’t recall if it was Eric’s idea or my own, but around the same time we started making our own comics. It was Eric, at any rate, that took it most seriously, and I remember this because he was the first to use blank instead of lined paper, the first to ink over his pencils, first to go through and colour each and every panel by hand.
Around 1993, I’d been doing a comic called The Rubber Bandit and another called Batsquirrel, and Eric was doing a comic called Silver Squadron. Continued…
So I don’t know nor can I quite explain why I was so resistant to ever using CSS when developing web sites. I taught myself HTML months before my family ever got internet, a 56k modem that barely hustled 10k. I hard-coded everything in text editors, never seeing the usefulness of learning web-development applications just for a hobby. Then I taught myself PHP and MySQL, and now more than just being the logical conclusion, its practicality is beyond what I imagined. Rah rah, CSS.
I’ve been webbing a great deal lately. Expect things.
