The new CSS-powered version of Slashdot (mentioned previously) has gone live
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. [...] 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.
I’m guessing that it won’t be long before we start seeing user stylesheets and GreaseMonkey hacks for customized Slashdot viewing.
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HTML 4.01… Oh, how lovely it would have been to get XHTML 1.1 instead!
I don’t think it’s a great redesign though. 63% of the download is javascript for ads. That’s a lot of ads.
Andreas: they explained their reasons for using HTML4 rather than XHTML. The fact that they moved away from table-based layout to CSS is more important in the grand scheme of things.