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...

Comments

Re:XML?

[Brento]

you should be using XML for all the data and then XSLT + CSS for the style.

The suggested redesign isn't for buzzword compliance or increased functionality - it's to reduce bandwidth. XML + XSLT + CSS would produce the opposite effect, despite its arguable cool factor.