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Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS
After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS. While there are a handful of bugs and some lesser used functionality isn't quite done yet, the transition has gone very smoothly. You can use our sourceforge project page to submit bugs and we'd really appreciate the feedback. Thanks to Tim Vroom for putting the HTML in place, Wes Moran for writing the HTML in the first place, and Pudge for writing the code to convert
900k users, 60k stories, and 13 million comments to comply. And for the brave, download the stylesheet and start experimenting with new themes and designs for Slashdot: some sort of official contest to re-design Slashdot is coming soon, so you can get a head start now.
Response to some reader notes in the forum:
- There are a handful of validation errors. Some will be fixed in the next day or so. Others are external HTML that is out of our hands. We may never toally validate with zero errors. yes we're comfortable with that.
- We're not going to XHTML for the same reasons as above- we control almost all of our HTML, but some of it (like the ads, and imports from other sites) just isn't ours to muck about with. We could go to XHTML, and someday we might, but today we're happy to just get to HTML 4.01 and CSS.
- Light Mode will be back in some form or another. The problem is that light mode served two purposes: Low Bandwidth, and Simplified Design. The later will probably be handled with a CSS theme (we have a handheld theme already). Low Bandwidth is a little trickier, but we will resolve that soon.
- All of our code is beta tested on www.slashcode.com and use.perl.org. Unfortunately there's always a few issues from those tiny tiny sites and the giant bohemoth that is Slashdot itself.
Anyone else have mod points but no option to use them?
...last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full compliment of CSS...
i think he meant a full COMPLEMENT of CSS
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I looked at /. late last night and relized that the text looked very different. So I turned to my 1337 roommate and told hom that /. looked different. Now I knew that /, was getting re-coded but I didn't know that that was the new code. But he couldn't get it looking right so I just left it be and ofcorse this morning they admit that they went under our noses and re-coded.
I can't wait to see how the rest of the project goes!
And is that Plain Old Text!?
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I *still* contend that there is some kind of "logic" that audo-moderates posts with certain keywords in it. Come on, my post was OBVIOUSLY a joke. I even put the wink at the end. There have been several other posts I have made in the past that were *immediately* moderated -1 flamebait, then later moderated up as funny or informative. If I had the time to post test messages with various keywords I would. Just curious - has anyone else experienced this?
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One of the best grammar jokes I've seen. I wish I had mod points for you.
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