Re: [WSG] Has news.com.au redesigned to Standards?

[heretic]

> I had a pleasant surprise this morning when I saw this redesign.  Good to
> see another big site making the effort.

Mmm, I had a pleasant surprise; followed by disappointment; followed
by a rude shock; followed by sustained aggravation.

Pleasant surprise: hey, looks nice.

Disappointment: not a single heading tag, paragraph or unordered list
to be found.

Rude shock: crashes Opera. Restart Opera - crashes instantly. Have to
lose the other windows as well to get back to the site. Hope the error
does not reoccur.

Sustained aggravation: They've included a time-based REFRESH on their
feedback page. So if you take more than a couple of minutes to give
real feedback, the page reloads and you lose the information you are
trying to send to them. They got my short, cranky third attempt :)


Looks to me like cargo cult standards - they know they're supposed to
use CSS, but they don't actually know why. Which is how you get 

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Re: [WSG] Has news.com.au redesigned to Standards?

[Amit Karmakar]

Reminds me of the post I wrote yesterday!
http://www.karmakars.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/23/news_redesign



On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:05:29 -0500, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I had a pleasant surprise this morning when I saw this redesign.  Good to
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> It needs a visit by the usability police. 41,706 bytes of CSS, and text
> & line-height sized in subatomic px. Should any site need that much CSS?
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Re: [WSG] Has news.com.au redesigned to Standards?

[Felix Miata]

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> http://www.news.com.au/
 
> I had a pleasant surprise this morning when I saw this redesign.  Good to
> see another big site making the effort.

It needs a visit by the usability police. 41,706 bytes of CSS, and text
& line-height sized in subatomic px. Should any site need that much CSS?
-- 
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but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God."
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RE: [WSG] Has news.com.au redesigned to Standards?

[Miles Tillinger]

A lot less tables than before 8D but plenty of validation errors...  It
scares me to think of how difficult it would be to keep all of the
content compliant when there's so much 3rd party shite plugged into
every page.  Definitely a step in the right direction, thumbs up!

Mt. 

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[WSG] Has news.com.au redesigned to Standards?

[Helen . Rysavy]

http://www.news.com.au/

I had a pleasant surprise this morning when I saw this redesign.  Good to
see another big site making the effort.

Cheers

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