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Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

Posted by TimSlavin at December 9, 2003

"Ask an IT person if they know what Slashdot’s tagline is and they’ll reply, “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.” Slashdot is a very prominent site, but underneath the hood you will find an old jalopy that could benefit from a web standards mechanic.

In this article we will show how an engine overhaul could take place by converting a single Slashdot page from their current HTML 3.2 code, nested tables, and invalid, nonsemantic markup, to a finely tuned web standards racing engine. The goal is not to change Slashdot, but to rebuild it with web standards and show the benefits of the transition." Terrific dissection of the ideal process for converting an HTML 3.2 table design to CSS layout (which loads much faster, among other benefits). Two part article with examples and discussion from A List Apart. Found through the I-Design email newsletter.

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