Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS

Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS 581

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:00PM from the oh-my-god-it's-actually-happening dept.

After almost 8 years, Slashdot's HTML is finally getting an overhaul. For now the changes are almost entirely under the hood, as we migrate the current skin to CSS. Slashdot itself will migrate in the next few weeks, but for now, we'd appreciate it if people who understand CSS could take a look at Slashcode. If you use a browser that lets you select a stylesheet, you can take a look at that site with the Slashdot CSS Skin. Keep in mind that Slashcode doesn't look exactly like Slashdot, so there will be some differences between that site, and the final version that will appear on Slashdot. We're mainly looking for feedback on compatibility issues and blatant bugs. You can use our our SF bug tracker to submit bug reports. Thanks for your help. Once we move Slashdot, work will begin on a new look & feel. If you have ideas, you could start playing with the CSS stylesheets now!

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Just one question... (Score:5, Funny)

by suso ( 153703 ) * writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:02PM (#13490338) Journal

After almost 8 years, Slashdot's HTML is finally getting an overhaul.

What is a HTML?

The apocalypse draws nigh. (Score:2, Funny)

by funny-jack ( 741994 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:04PM (#13490367) Homepage

from the oh-my-god-it's-actually-happening dept.

You can say that again.

OMFG (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:04PM (#13490373)

Slashdot going to CSS? Has hell frozen over!? Windows gone GPL!? What's next?

Re:css!! (Score:5, Funny)

by MyLongNickName ( 822545 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:06PM (#13490396) Journal

Doesn't everyone on Slashdot use IE?

(sorry)

Re:Will the beta bring the site down? (Score:3, Funny)

by mspohr ( 589790 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:06PM (#13490399)

It looks like /. has been slashdotted (slashdotti?).

Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:07PM (#13490402)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Browser compatibility testing (Score:2, Funny)

by Hulkster ( 722642 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:07PM (#13490408) Homepage

I tested the CSS version with wget and it looks good ... ;-)

Does the new version... (Score:2, Funny)

by Pivot ( 4465 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:09PM (#13490434)

Come with a spell checker for submitters?

Stylish (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:11PM (#13490446)

I vote for the entire site to be made in Shockwave. CSS is for suckers.

Holy Living Fuck! (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:11PM (#13490448)

Duke Nukem Forever is just about to be released too!

Re:OMFG (Score:5, Funny)

by schon ( 31600 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:11PM (#13490449)

Slashdot going to CSS? Has hell frozen over!? Windows gone GPL!? What's next?

I'd answer, but I'm too busy trying to catch these damn flying pigs!

Re:I groan saying this... (Score:3, Funny)

by wbren ( 682133 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:11PM (#13490451) Homepage

No, the new site design is just a blank gray window with a never-ending browser status animation culminating in a message box that says "Host unavailable". I bet that only took three lines of CSS code.

File not found (Score:4, Funny)

by CubicleView ( 910143 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:13PM (#13490468) Journal

Hi, could everyone stop clicking on the link for a minute so I can open it, thanks.

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:3, Funny)

by fshalor ( 133678 ) writes: <fshalor@NospaM.comcast.net> on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:13PM (#13490469) Homepage Journal

It's also slashdoted...

LOL!!!

I love this site. hehe...

Re:Will the beta bring the site down? (Score:5, Funny)

by liam193 ( 571414 ) * writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:13PM (#13490470)

Slashcode has been slashdotted!

For all those wishing to read the original article, the contents have been replicated in a modified format here [slashdot.org].

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:4, Funny)

by Crazy Man on Fire ( 153457 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:13PM (#13490475) Homepage

Considering the fact that the Slashcode servers are now a pile of smoldering ash, I'm guessing they haven't saved much bandwidth

Re:Just one question... (Score:3, Funny)

by JoeBar ( 546577 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:15PM (#13490486)

What is a joke?

Hell froze over (Score:5, Funny)

by paulius_g ( 808556 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:16PM (#13490495) Homepage

Damn,

It's getting cold down here.

- Satan

Re:css!! (Score:5, Funny)

by cybersaga ( 451046 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:17PM (#13490512) Homepage

Thank goodness everyone's customers use standards compliant browsers. Whew! Your theory would be totally ridiculous if they didn't.

[/sarcasm]

Re:I groan saying this... (Score:2, Funny)

by T-Ranger ( 10520 ) writes: <jeffw@chebucto.nTWAINs.ca minus author> on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:18PM (#13490513) Homepage

My bet is that they rewrote slash in Ruby on Rails, and as a result it actually takes negative storage space. slashcode isnt realy slashdotted, the extra hard drives that are popping out of that server have knocked out the ethernet line....

Bug Report (Score:5, Funny)

by johnkoer ( 163434 ) writes: <johnkoer@NoSPAM.yahoo.com> on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:18PM (#13490514) Homepage Journal

I tried this and it seems to be kicking out quite a few duplicate stories. Is that normal?

in other news (Score:2, Funny)

by rayde ( 738949 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:20PM (#13490531) Homepage

Duke Nuken Forever is being released! On the Phantom Gaming Console. Which will be running Longhorn!
seriously though, this is a good thing, hopefully this will allow for user-chosen themes, etc. and way to get http://it.slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]to not look like baby poo.

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:5, Funny)

by jpostel ( 114922 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:22PM (#13490552) Homepage Journal

CmdrTaco - "Do you smell something?"

CowboyNeal - "Oh Sh*t! The slashcode server's on fire!"

ROFL

Re:No logon (Score:2, Funny)

by WalksOnDirt ( 704461 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:25PM (#13490574)

Sounds like the Slashdot main page got hacked, adding this artcle with a link to harvest Slashdot logins. B-)

Re:The apocalypse draws nigh. (Score:3, Funny)

by aug24 ( 38229 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:28PM (#13490592) Homepage

Oh my god it's actually happening!

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:3, Funny)

by Malc ( 1751 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:30PM (#13490620)

You would think Cmdr Taco would know enough about the /. effect that he wouldn't inflict it upon his own servers. He must be some kind of masochist!

Re:Why do this? (Score:5, Funny)

by farker haiku ( 883529 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:43PM (#13490727) Journal

Remember: this calculation is based on the number of pages served as of 13 June, 2000. I believe that Slashdot's traffic is much heavier now, but even using this three-year-old figure, the money saved is impressive.

Welcome to 2005.

Re:Finally, Slashdot Slashdotted, Literally! (Score:5, Funny)

by loconet ( 415875 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:44PM (#13490731) Homepage

Add to that the fact that Slashdot is moving to css, Apple using Intel, Apple Shipping 2 Button Mice, Debian 3.1 was released and this year seems to be turning into be the pivotal point for hell to hold the winter olympics.

OMG! (Score:3, Funny)

by Comatose51 ( 687974 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:45PM (#13490736) Homepage

What have the editors done!? They posted a link back to Slashdot so now they're going to Slashdot Slashdot and create a Internet blackhole where the same articles get posted over and over again!
I kid, I kid.

Re:XHTML (Score:5, Funny)

by mstyne ( 133363 ) writes: <mikeNO@SPAMalphamonkey.org> on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:46PM (#13490751) Homepage Journal

Hey that guy has a website on the Internet he must be right

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:5, Funny)

by sootman ( 158191 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @12:56PM (#13490837) Homepage Journal

No WML. Less styles than CSS Zen Garden. Lame.

Re:Dupe (Score:3, Funny)

by PhilHibbs ( 4537 ) writes: <snarks@gmail.com> on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @01:04PM (#13490925) Journal

No, you're a sex bot.

Re:Finally, Slashdot Slashdotted, Literally! (Score:4, Funny)

by iluvcapra ( 782887 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @01:38PM (#13491264)

Here we are at the apocalypse, and we still never got to play Duke Nukem Forever.
Yeah, I went there.

Full text (Score:3, Funny)

by IainHere ( 536270 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @02:37PM (#13491837)

Since the site is slashdotted, here's the article text (it's funny, laugh!)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="description" content="Slash + CSS -- article related to Slash.">
<title>Slashcode | Slash + CSS</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="//www.slashcode.com/base.css" >
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="//www.slashcode.com/comments.css" >
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="//www.slashcode.com/ostgnavbar.css" >
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="//www.slashcode.com/slashcode.css" title="Slashcode" >
<link rel="Alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="//www.slashcode.com/slashdot.css" title="Slashdot" >
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="//www.slashcode.com/print.css" >



Sorry - I'm not allowed to show you any more because it violats the posting filter. Stay tuned for the next exciting installment.
Re:Just one question... (Score:1, Funny)

by Saeed al-Sahaf ( 665390 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @02:47PM (#13491940) Homepage

Woah. Dude. Less coffee.

Re:css!! (Score:3, Funny)

by Ubergrendle ( 531719 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @02:52PM (#13491989) Journal

Nah, we're all still on Mosaic. Slashdot is the only site we can still visit coincidentally, and the lack of flash support means we don't have to read MS adverts ontop of Linux articles.

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:5, Funny)

by tgd ( 2822 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @02:59PM (#13492058)

*one day passes*

Zonk - "Oh Sh*t! The slashcode server's on fire!"

Re:Finally, Slashdot Slashdotted, Literally! (Score:3, Funny)

by TeknoHog ( 164938 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @04:07PM (#13492811) Homepage Journal

So will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?

Re:Just one question... (Score:3, Funny)

by Kent Recal ( 714863 ) writes: on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @08:25PM (#13495222)

Cool, is this the +2-Insightful thread?

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Just one question... (Score:5, Funny)

The apocalypse draws nigh. (Score:2, Funny)

OMFG (Score:2, Funny)

Re:css!! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Will the beta bring the site down? (Score:3, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)

Browser compatibility testing (Score:2, Funny)

Does the new version... (Score:2, Funny)

Stylish (Score:0, Funny)

Holy Living Fuck! (Score:0, Funny)

Re:OMFG (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I groan saying this... (Score:3, Funny)

File not found (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Will the beta bring the site down? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Just one question... (Score:3, Funny)

Hell froze over (Score:5, Funny)

Re:css!! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I groan saying this... (Score:2, Funny)

Bug Report (Score:5, Funny)

in other news (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:No logon (Score:2, Funny)

Re:The apocalypse draws nigh. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Why do this? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Finally, Slashdot Slashdotted, Literally! (Score:5, Funny)

OMG! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:XHTML (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Dupe (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Finally, Slashdot Slashdotted, Literally! (Score:4, Funny)

Full text (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Just one question... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:css!! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Oh My God, It's Actually Happening! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Finally, Slashdot Slashdotted, Literally! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Just one question... (Score:3, Funny)

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