Slashdot finally moves to CSS

I actually noticed it intermittently last night, but Slashdot has finally made the move. Kudos to them.

While I really want to make a “Thanks for joining 1999! LOL!” remark here, I can’t bring myself to do so. Perhaps that’s because I don’t want to think about what a terrible process it must have been to convert all those old, statically generated stories from HTML to CSS. It’s hard to even imagine.

Oh, and to all of you people complaining about Slashdot not moving to XHTML Strict – why would they do so? Well-formed CSS has obvious advantages. But XHTML? What’s the point? (And that’s from someone whose site does validate as XHTML strict.)

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