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Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-my-god-it's-actually-happening dept.

After almost 8 years, Slashdot's HTML is finally getting an overhaul. For now the changes are almost entirely under the hood, as we migrate the current skin to CSS. Slashdot itself will migrate in the next few weeks, but for now, we'd appreciate it if people who understand CSS could take a look at Slashcode. If you use a browser that lets you select a stylesheet, you can take a look at that site with the Slashdot CSS Skin. Keep in mind that Slashcode doesn't look exactly like Slashdot, so there will be some differences between that site, and the final version that will appear on Slashdot. We're mainly looking for feedback on compatibility issues and blatant bugs. You can use our our SF bug tracker to submit bug reports. Thanks for your help. Once we move Slashdot, work will begin on a new look & feel. If you have ideas, you could start playing with the CSS stylesheets now!

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  1. css!! by jlebrech · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you do change to CSS beware as some CSS is IE specific, like list trees.

  2. Re:finally... lol by joeljkp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's one explanation, from CmdrTaco's Journal:

    "Pudge has been working a lot on that problem. Specifically we've got scripts to fix HTML in all editor & user contributed content spaces. A lot of this is under way already. Old comments are being automatically fixed in the background. HTML in articles from 1998 is being corrected. Scripts are working very hard. And in some cases, tired editors have been re-reading stories from 1998 to correct HTML errors that boggle the mind. None of this is perfect, so don't be to surprised if you find something wonky. Feel free to mail me URLs if you see it. We've got almost 60,000 articles, 900,000 users, and like 13 million comments. There will be mistakes."

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  3. Re:Sigh by daniil · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ages ago. Go to Preferences -> Homepage (or just click here), and set Date/Time Format to something other than the default. And then forget to click Save.

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  4. Re:MOD PARENT UP by IMarvinTPA · · Score: 5, Informative

    Got it finally: http://greasemonkeyed.com/tag/slashdot

    IMarv

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  5. Re:Does the new version... by JHromadka · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, it's called Safari.

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