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Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards
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...
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?
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...
Translation of what Taco said: We couldn't get off our collective asses to update the site so that it worked with anything newer than HTML 3.2 but, now that somebody's gone and done all that not-so-hard work for us and handed it to us on a plate, we might consider joining the 21st century. If we can pull ourselves away from Quake III/UT/EverQuest/Warcraft III/Neverwinter Nights.
Anyone else think it was way past the time that the editors actually did something along these lines?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I know you're hoping for +5 Pathetically Pedantic and Informative, but you have failed, miserably.
Or LESS penis, as the case may be.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
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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Actually, you're supposed to only have 1 space after periods. Step into the 21st century, retard.
You stupid piece of shit fuckwad. It's 2 spaces after a period. Everyone knows that. Stop spreading your uneducated crap everywhere. You are tens pounds of shit in a two pound bag you illegitimate cuntdropping.
Why, that's enough to keep Hemos and Taco in Anal Lube for a whole year!
With all the Linux lawsuits going on, and with more and more buffer overwflows popping up in Apahce, don't you think its time to re-write slashcode in Asp.net.
Buy the Quality with a Qaptial Q with Microsoft Windows Enterprise Server 2003 edition today. ASP is the only natrul choice for enterprise slashdot articles, where being able to take 100 hits a second is an absolute must.
So please, please PLEASE stop using perl, and update to enterprise ASP.net, TODAY!
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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