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WthRemix Winners Announced
joeclark1159 writes "The contest to redesign the World Wide Web Consortium's homepage to look like something vaguely superior to 1982-era lpt output has announced its winners, judged on criteria including standards compliance, accessibility, graceful degradation, and aesthetics. The grand-prize winner, Radu Darvas, is arguably head and shoulders above the competition."
I guess my submissions of http://www.microsoft.com didn't win after all... :(
...but that winning design still needs some massaging. At least that's what the Machead type-designer in me says. The text spacing is pretty off to my eyes, in both Safari and Chimera (nee Camino) 0.6.
In any case, razor blades flying from my LCD at high speeds would probably be better than the W3C site as it stands. It always annoyed me that their CSS2 page was just about the ugliest one on the intarweb. "Look, kiddies! With CSS, your pages can cause bleeding eyes! Semantically!"
now can someone stop the w3c from their xml trip? by http 6.0, every bit will be xml encoded.
<octet hexvalue="2d">
<bit order="7">0</bit>
<bit order="6">0</bit>
<bit order="5">1</bit>
<bit order="4">0</bit>
<bit order="3">1</bit>
<bit order="2">1</bit>
<bit order="1">0</bit>
<bit order="0">1</bit>
</octet>
Hehe, reminds me of when I tried to feed msn.com through the HTML validator... god did it ever fuck itself...
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
Kind of offtopic, but this reminds me of this old joke (from Stalinist era, I think):
Today, in preparation of Lenin's forthcoming 70th jubilee, a contest for anecdotes about Lenin was announced. The prizes are:
Third place - 10 years in places of importance in the life of Lenin (Siberia)
Second place - 25 years in places of importance in the life of Lenin plus 5 years in places where other revolutionary heroes have dwelled
First place - an opportunity to meet the great leader in person
Hell is not other people; it is yourself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Finally one can go to the page without feeling like having had extensive eye surgery.
I am the Barber of Seville.
The design was submitted by a slashdot reader.
no 900k flash intro? one that gives me a thumping techno beat as the letters "w3c" flash into existence before my eyes?
not a terribly modern redesign, obviously. These people need to get with the program.