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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. Call me a perfectionist... by loquacious+d · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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!"

  2. okay well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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>

  3. From the contest FAQ. by Rhinobird · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the relationship of this contest with the W3C?

    This contest is not affiliated with the W3C, entries will not be submitted to them. Enter this contest if you are inspired by the challenge and/or excited about the prizes.


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  4. What no alternate stylesheets? by Chilliwilli · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Where are the alternate stylesheets? Larger text options for hard of vision? Higher contrast?
    Also none of the entries make use of site navigation links?
    Load up wired.com in a new version of Mozilla.. that's how new standards compliant web technology should be done.

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  5. Accessible design with fixed font sizes? by rmonday · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I don't see what's so accessible about a design that uses fixed text sizes. Seems to be an attempt to do page layout, rather than page markup.

    To be properly accessible, it should (amongst other things...) be possible to easily change the displayed font size to suit your preference.

    With the default MSIE settings it can't be done when the stylesheet specifies fixed pixel font sizes. I realise that most of the size specifications in css are broken in some way in some browser, but just assuming that everybody uses the exact same screen DPI and has the exact same eyesight isn't the answer.

    From that point of view, the winning design is a big step backwards from the existing site (and no less cluttered and confusing).