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WthRemix Winners Announced

Posted by michael on from the slashdot.org-still-needs-help dept.

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."

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  1. Fails on Windows IE, works on Linux, Mac by danielp · · Score: 2, Informative

    Refreshing doesn't help, but if you scroll around the page for a while, you will eventually have everything redrawn in another (more correct) way than refresh. Go figure!

    Works great in Debian GNU / Linux - Galeon 1.3.3, Debian GNU / Linux - Mozilla 1.3, Mac OS X 10.2.5 - Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v73) (damn fast!), and Mac OS X 10.2.5 - IE 5.2.2.

    Cheers!

    - I don't have a .sig

  2. Re:funny by marsvin · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's the default filler text used when someone needs a bit of text, for example for demonstrating a typeface or page layout. See this Straight Dope article for more info.

  3. It's dummy text by Andy_R · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's the printing/design industry's standard piece of dummy text, used by designers like me when making mockups.

    It dates from about 1500, and is a garbled version of Section 1.10.32 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC.

    www.lipsum.com has more info, translations, the ungarbled version and so on.

    --
    A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
  4. Re:Look ma, no tables! by daffmeister · · Score: 2, Informative
    I wouldn't mind understanding how that was done.
    Can anyone explain?

    Just view the source and download the style-sheets. It's all there.