Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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...

8 of 764 comments (clear)

  1. Hmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Way to bury a news item. Post it on /. at midnite on Fri/Sat.

  2. 18 pages per second by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeesh. Beats the hell out of my site. Feel free to click on it to console me though. :-)

    --
    "If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
  3. almost there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now all we need is editors who aren't blatantly biased, rude, hypocritical, and unprofessional.

  4. YAY I GOT MY ENGLISH DEGREE TODAY by JasonUCF · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Right, so it has been pointed out to me via email from a very..ahem.. friendly reader, that there is indeed an example, and I need to get my !#)%( checked. Having said that..

    The example link is here:
    http://www.alistapart.com/d/slashdot/index.html

    here too :p

  5. Re:CTRL-R by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wht the bloody hellll........someone needs to eat more penis

  6. But does it support OGG? by payote · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's all we really care about right?

    --


    Never pet a burning dog.
  7. And while you're about it FIX THIS by Linker3000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hows about YEARS in all article dates - on the odd occasion I've done a bit of historical digging it would have been nice to know what YEAR the article came from--expecially those that say things like "within the next year..."

    --
    AT&ROFLMAO
  8. Re:This article is intended to be read by humans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    your wasting processor time.

    MOTHERFUCKER!
    "You're." YOU ARE. GOD DAMN IT!