Crumpled

I've been checking out the HTML and CSS used to create suicidegirls.com.

I'm humbled by "cute little goth girls on their macs." (the meta tag "author")

Conjures up an image of little succubi-cherebs coding away on thier imacs at a desk covered with hello kitty merchandise.

It's all bloody perfect. A stylesheet for the overall site, a stylesheet for the page you are on, and a stylesheet for the particular browser you are using. so they can fully control the awesomeness based on how good your browser is at displaying awesomeness. Showing a deep understanding of what CSS features are fully supported and which ones work with which browsers. All the public site content has proper XML/RSS feeds for syndication. And it's all nearly valid XHTML. (the w3 validator says it isn't but looking at the complaints of the validator, you could imagine the html element that it complains about as regular xml elements and the validator is invalidated, it's perfect.)

This all started when I saw the page in firefox and noticed the little shadow around the main window in there. I've never done something like that, and didn't know it could be done (yes, I know, it sounds simple, but there are a lot of limitations in browsers and in HTML.) I had to investigate and discovered all the stylesheets and other stuff. If you do look at the page in Firefox, and then Internet Explorer, You'll notice the shadows aren't in IE. Because IE doesn't support transperancy in PNGs, they left it out, maximizing awesomeness by holding back what wont work.

Plus the coders are hot. You can see them naked on the site if you subscribe. I'll just bask in the sexyness of the code. To each their own. Sexy HTML for me. I wanna get with it in the worst way.