After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS. While there are a handful of bugs and some lesser used functionality isn’t quite done yet, the transition has gone very smoothly.
Good to see this happening. Slashdot is the epicenter of the geek world, and web standards advocates have complained about its sloppy tagsoup HTML coding for years. Ugly <font> tags everywhere, and we’re in 2005!
Besides increasing Slashdot’s nerd credibility, this will probably reduce their bandwith usage by a nice percentage, and user-made alternative stylesheets will surely start to crop up soon.