11 A good case study

It’s a quintessential case study of semantic web design, CSS migration and their benefits. Thank you!

posted at 04:33 pm on November 21, 2003 by Pulat Yunusov

12 Not so identical

Did nobody notice the big difference between the original and the converted page? It’s quite obvious.

The original page has more than 75% of italic text, as always on Slashdot. The new version of the page has no italic.

If nobody noticed the omission, it’s because it’s SUCH AN DAMN IMPROVEMENT. Congratulations, Daniel, for making the first readable Slashdot page ever.

posted at 05:07 pm on November 21, 2003 by Olivier

13 Sorry, but someone has to say it:

1). Fix non-standard /. markup
2). ????????
3). Profit!

posted at 05:13 pm on November 21, 2003 by Peter

14 Great minds think alike ;)

http://soupisgoodfood.net/area51/frontpage.html

I did that nearly a year ago! I’m sure there are many designers out there with a redesign of Slashdot sitting on their HD. Finnaly someone put it into an artical.

Now the big question: Will we ever see this code used at Slashdot?

posted at 05:16 pm on November 21, 2003 by Justin

15 Way back in 2001...

Way back in 2001 I recall making the same point — that SlashDot uses cruddy, invalid, bloated markup http://www.macedition.com/cb/cb_20011203.php . And sure enough, pudge came along and pointed out that it wasn’t SlashCode’s fault, it was the templates. Just as has occurred with this article. Two years later, almost to the day, SlashDot’s default templates still have not been updated and made valid, and neither has SlashDot’s template.

posted at 05:37 pm on November 21, 2003 by CodeBitch

16 oops..

That should read: “Two years later, almost to the day, SlashCode’s default templates still have not been updated and made valid, and neither has SlashDot’s template.”

‘Cause y’know if you get the code and the templates mixed up, shame on you.

posted at 05:38 pm on November 21, 2003 by CodeBitch

17 slash design

“I’m sure there are many designers out there with a redesign of Slashdot sitting on their HD.”

[url=“http://www.sleeplessnight.net/redesigns/slashdot2.html”]YUP[/url]

posted at 06:47 pm on November 21, 2003 by Cowboy X

18 excellent article

This is an excellent howto/whyto for those of us holding out on standards compliance, thanks.

posted at 07:02 pm on November 21, 2003 by Jeff

19 What everyone else said

Definitive proof that standards compliant design is now mature enough for anything on the Web. Although I second Joe Kaczmarek’s question (http://www.alistapart.com/discuss/slashdot/#c5665) about why the navigation comes first when you switch the style off. Content should come first but, I’m guessing that positioning gambit won’t really work with a layout as complex as Slash.

Maybe someone should form a volunteer goon squad to systematically clean up all the open source CMS tools (slashcode, PHPNuke, Scoop, the lesser known blog and shopping cart scripts, etc.) out there.

posted at 08:35 pm on November 21, 2003 by Mr. Farlops

20 Now just fix up the forms a bit and you have a win

One thing I’d love to see is the use of <label tags for all the form elements.

(The places this comes to mind in your example page are the Poll radio buttons and the Login and Search fields.)

posted at 10:28 pm on November 21, 2003 by jonah