CSS has been an official W3C standard since 1996. In 1997 it was made a core part of the HTML 4.0 Transitional specification and a mandatory part of the HTML 4.0 Strict specification. In 2000 CSS was made a mandatory part of both the XHTML 1.0 Transitional spec and the XHTML 1.0 Strict spec (font tags were not allowed anymore). It is now 2003, three years after the launch of XHTML 1.0, six years after the launch of HTML 4.0, and seven years after the launch of CSS Level 1.
I left the Amiga community in 1997 and at the time the lack of CSS was becoming a problem, I'm just amazed that it still is.
Damien