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Re: A contest for a new css



On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:31:00AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Hi Mathieu!
> >    Hi! I steal think that debian has, unfortunatly, the less beautiful
> >    website of all major distributions. I already submited some artworks I
> >    did on this mailling list[1], but not everyone liked it.  All right, I
> >    may not be the best webdesigner around here, so what about launching a
> >    contest ? :)
> 
> Actually, that's not a bad idea at all.

I agree. Another option could be to make it a summer of code project;
the FreeBSD project did that last year, and look at their website now!
:-)

> There are lots of people in the past who have suggested that that
> would like to change the layout a bit, so why not give people a change
> to see what they come up with.
> 
> However, if we want to create such a "content", I think it is important
> to state in advance what kind of limitations we want.  For example,
> validating XTHML,

FWIW, we already have that bit today.

> clear separation of content and layout, working in all browsers, no
> frames, no javascript, no dynamic pages, needs to fit in the current
> wml building scheme and translation practise, etc.
> 
> What do you guys think?

I'm all for it.

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