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.
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.