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Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

Posted by michael on from the two-cents dept.

Joe Clark writes "Nearly a year after an interview with this correspondent highlighted a few problems with Slashdot's HTML, Daniel M. Frommelt and his posse have recoded a prototype of Slashdot that uses valid, semantic HTML and stylesheets. Frommelt projects four-figure bandwidth savings in the candidate redesign, were it adopted, not to mention better appearance in a wide range of browsers and improved accessibility. Next he needs volunteers to retool the Slashdot engine. And yes, he did it all with CmdrTaco's blessing." Slashdot has kept its HTML 3.2 design for a long time ("because it works"), but perhaps this effort will be a catalyst for change...

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  1. Re:It does look better by shaitand · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Opera was a fad, most people got over it within 10 days of initial release. IE was also a fad, people are still regretting it. Neither of them really count anyway.

    In a default linux install you'll find Mozilla, Konqueror, and Galeon. So obviously these are the only browsers that matter anyway. I really see no reason whatsoever to make the site windows compliant.

    When those browsers properly render standards based code, then their worth using. In the meantime IE won't be able to render slashdot, guess it's time to get a better browser eh?

  2. Re:CTRL-R by black+mariah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or LESS penis, as the case may be.

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  3. Re:What about PNGs? by qewl · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The only argument I've seen against them is for compatibility's sake

    The GIF patent expired June 20, 2003-- we're free to use the compression scheme royalty free now. I have also noticed most PNG images are larger in size than their GIF equivalents anyway.

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  4. Freaking dotted lines by PurpleBob · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    People who know CSS well should be people who know good design, right? But it seems that they all like to show off their CSS skillz by putting dotted lines everywhere on the page. Like here, in their "second skin" example.

    What is the obsession with dotted lines? They're ugly and distracting. It's nothing but a way to scream to the world "Hey look, I know CSS and I'm using it to make my page look worse! Go me!"

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