The cascade was born from a time when the hope was to apply your own styles independently of the site's style, without overriding theirs completely. I think the

The cascade was born from a time when the hope was to apply your own styles independently of the site's style, without overriding theirs completely. I think the standard languished and fell out of favor, but that was the hope. I'm having trouble finding the original video, but Jacob Thorton (@fat) did an insightful talk on the whole affair called "Cascading Shit Show"