Also sprach Chad:
My hypothesis
is that the current HTML code can be simplified and
improved by relying more CSS. The benefits are reduced code size
(what's the bandwidth of Wikipedia?) and easier reuse of the content.
/me waits for the obligatory "omg think of the text browsers" comments
It's a good question. Text browsers will generally do better with
simplified markup. For example, lynx works much better with the
dt/dd-based markup proposed here:
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox/
than the current nested-table approach.
So, when I say "rely more on CSS", I mean rely more on CSS for
*styling* and leave the semantics to HTML.
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
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