> We've now reached the point where HTML and CSS served via a normal webserver is regarded as insufficient We've reached this point in 1995, that's why Rasmus

> We've now reached the point where HTML and CSS served via a normal webserver is regarded as insufficient We've reached this point in 1995, that's why Rasmus Lerdorf created PHP ! Edit: Oh, I just realised that this is even older than the CSS spec itself (1996). So technically, there has been no point in time where HTML and CSS served via a normal webserver[1] were regarded as sufficient :) [1]: what is a «normal webserver» anyway ?