[hinkley]

It’s not needless pedantry. Calling it CSS is using a crescent wrench as a hammer and calling it a hammer (a running joke on r/tools). You’ve missed the entire point and someone needs to remind you - and everyone listening in - what the point was.

We had in-line style before we had CSS. We are going back and nobody remembers why we’ve had CSS for twenty years? Read some history.

[oneeyedpigeon]

We're not in 2003, though. If you're working on a project with somebody and you insist they refrain from calling the contents of a style attribute CSS because it wasn't always technically CSS, nobody will thank you.

Edit: actually, even when I was working with CSS in 2003 (IIRC, we absolutely were using separate CSS files then), this attitude would have been unhelpful, to say the least.