Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

Posted by michael on Friday November 21, 2003 @05:02PM 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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Not ANOTHER non-standard page... by Qweezle · 2003-11-21 17:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

PLEASE, whatever you do, just don't optimize it for any specific browser.

Slashdot readers use perhaps the most varied array of operating systems of any news site, and I can bet you that if our Linux, Mac, Solaris, BSD, UNIX, BeOS, etc. users could not access the web site because they had no access to the latest version of IE, that it would be quite a mess.

Please, please, support web standards that can make web sites available to everyone.