Moving the Mountain

So the big talk in the world of web wonks in the very nice re-tooling of slashdot with non-ghetto HTML and CSS. Now the problem, and it's not a new problem by the way, is that people are calling on slashdot to reform their nested table, font tag ways.

The response since the day slashcode was launched was "sign up and start patching code." It's even in the FAQ. That's right, in typical open source fashion, the feature request was placed right back on the plate of the requester. This isn't a bad thing per se, but it's not really what most people want to hear.

Also, asking a site that hasn't even bothered to change it's look and feel for, what is it...7 years now, to go through a major presentation revamp seems a bit daft. For all the work that went into the fabulous retooling, the only did the main page. To really sell them it might have helped to do a page with 500+ comments. A separate version for each style of comment display as well. Those are the really ugly pages. The miles of nested tables with background colors. Those are the pages that will stress tables-less layouts to and past the breaking point.

But like Rob said, the code is there. Patch it yourself.

Update: As of Sun Nov 23 07:36:52 PST 2003 'wwwonk' was a googlewhack.