Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI always thought this was funny. This was the embodiment of the original CSS philosophy, which was to "label your html elements semantically with what they ARE, and then worry about styling those in the CSS." The whole point was to get anything style related out of the HTML altogether, the HTML would just be semantic/content related. But then Bootstrap and other CSS libraries came out, and completely inverted the philosophy back to what HTML originally looked like pre-CSS, which…
I'm sure I'm not alone - this site really inspired me to first get into web design and development. Great to see it alive and contributions as imaginative as ever.
I even had the book back in 2005! I felt so empowered to reign in IE6 https://www.amazon.com/Zen-CSS-Design-Visual-Enlightenment/d...
Seriously? I guess you missed the memo over 6 years ago?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 864
- Total comments
- 345
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-08 | CSS is for design, HTML is for content - CSS Zen Garden | IsaacL | 3 | 3 |
| 2013-07-18 | CSS Zen Garden relaunches with a new design | adamwintle | 3 | 0 |
| 2013-07-20 | CSS Zen Garden relaunchedFirst breakout | jmduke | 218 | 47 |
| 2016-06-28 | CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design | kercker | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-11-16 | CSS Zen Garden | mhasbini | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-03-19 | CSS Zen GardenHall induction · Best thread | eniz | 462 | 217 |
| 2021-12-24 | CSS Zen Garden: A demonstration of what can be achieved through CSS-based designLatest 20+ point return | mroche | 173 | 78 |