[MACCAWS] Yahoo gone gray ...

>>This is surely OT, but wonder if you fine folks saw the Yahoo page
>>today.
>>www.yahoo.com
>>
>>It's greyed out, in a colorless tribute. Touche!

>Would have probably been much easier on their end had they been using CSS
>instead of all those <table bgcolor> tags and such.
>
>Ah well. It's the thought that counts huh.

Saw this on Evolt and I thought to myself *WOW* what a nice real-world example 
we can use to argue for the speed/ease/cost of CSS styling as opposed to HTML 
styling. Compare what is normally on Yahoo and what has been done today 
(9/11/02). See how many graphics, table background colors, font colors, icons, etc. 
had to be changed on this one page. Now multiply the time it took to do all of this 
by the number of pages involved (in this case, only the front page has been 
changed, but imagine if more pages were involved....).

Pretty soon I think there would be a convincing case for the use of CSS styling ... 
even on a site that is as graphically sparse as Yahoo. Also, because of the high-
profile nature of Yahoo this would be an excellent example for the "pitch kit" that 
folks can use to sell the idea of standards compliant websites.

If anyone wants to volunteer making a mockup of Yahoo in CSS (or even a table-
based design with CSS styling) I won't be put off in the least ;-) Really!

Nathan