An interview on the reconstruction of the Flash-guest Empire website

Website refactoring  

	Gao Dayong [ information ]
NET name: The prodigal son of border town
Famous Flash portal Flash guest Empire founder
Vice general manager of the Semitic empire

	Superalgebras [ Information ]
Network Name: Allan
Operation Director, website of the Flash guest Empire
Technical Director of the website of the Flash guest Empire

NetEase College: How do you think of the use of xhtml+css2.0 technology to the Semitic empire to reconstruct it?

border town Prodigal Son: This revision has been brewing for a long time. During this period, we learned a lot about the knowledge of the standards of the consortium, the predecessor of the Semitic Empire is a technology-focused website, we feel that we should not lag behind in this respect. Of course, with browser friendliness and ease of maintenance, we decided to adopt a Web standard to develop the next version of the Semitic Empire, after careful consideration.

Allan: The beginning is actually through a set of unpublished manuscripts from the publisher "website Refactoring", when the publishing house asked to write some articles, and then carefully read it, found that the Web standard is indeed a place, and is in the flash of the Empire ready for the 5th time revision, So start thinking about whether you should use Web standards to do it?

NetEase College: When did you start planning a new build?

border town Prodigal Son: is before the revision formally begins. The Semitic Empire wrote a little book review on the website refactoring of Freescale. Then I thought, why don't we put it into practice right now?

NetEase College: Should say in China with XHTML+CSS technology to build the site is not very mature, in particular, there is no such background program support, to refactor, means that a whole set of publishing system to be adjusted, and even rewritten, what makes you determined to spend so much money to rebuild the Semitic empire?

border town Prodigal Son: Web site Refactoring is a lot of future sites to face the problem, standardization will never be a mistake, we know we will go this step in the morning. So, long pain is not as short as pain, so we made up our minds.

NetEase College: What is the attitude of other technicians in the process of refactoring? Do they support refactoring? At first, how much did they know about xhtml+css2.0 technology?

Allan: The Semitic Empire is always a novelty and change of the organization, whether on the forum website or the company, everyone is very like new technology. Personally think that xhtml+css2.0 is not a very technical difficulty, so everyone can quickly enter the role.

NetEase College: We understand that in the process of website reconfiguration, the technical problems encountered are many, how do you solve these technical problems?

border town Prodigal son: We communicate with each other, constantly testing, and subscribe to a lot of CSS mailing lists. More time is to query Google, there is a reference to others have done the site, such as: macromedia.com.

NetEase College: Can you list some of the solutions to the bug?

Allan: in the use of the process, xhtml+css2.0-style page structure in the Mozilla almost no bug, mainly in IE5 and IE5.5. Because these two kinds of browsers on the standard support is not very good, so there are many problems, I summarize the following mainly have the following points

1. Box shape problem http://allan.flashempire.net/blog/archive/2004/09/28/152.aspx
2. IE6 Hide-and-Seek bug http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html
3. Various issues with DIV-embedding
   http://allan.flashempire.net/blog/archive/2004/09/28/152.aspx
4. The UL label uses the CSS to control in each kind of browser to perform the different problem mainly by the different browser uses the different CSS to solve, regarding separately treats the method to see the Hide method Http://www.w3development.de/css/hide_css_ From_browsers/summary
5. An unknown bug in IE5 div set a http://allan.flashempire.net/blog/archive/2004/10/20/189.aspx

NetEase College: What is the obvious change after using xhtml+css reconstruction (advantage)

Allan:(1) The Web page file volume is much smaller, perhaps a little bit of CSS. But many interfaces are shared, so they are relatively small. The entire site has an average of only 2/3 pages in the past.
(2) Browser resolution is also relatively fast, although the sense of the time div nested nesting also requires nested parsing, but still faster than the layout of the table.
(3) Another is the adjustment is also convenient, generally a type of style by changing the CSS can be completely changed.
(3) There is also an obvious change is more convenient to write programs, because the role of XHTML only organized content, so programmers do not need to get CSS, only to take the XHTML page can be directly set up the program, without worrying about the various forms of the loop need to judge <tr></tr> Things, the efficiency of writing programs is also very high. It's very intuitive to modify, and builder staff just focus on modifying the CSS on the line. In the future, whether it is modified or revised version is very convenient, in fact, this should be the core purpose of using Web standards-Content-design-Program three to try to completely separate

NetEase College: Csdn also adopted the XHTML+CSS technology to their web site has been reconstructed, it seems more and more professional sites have entered the Xhtml+css camp, then please talk about your XHTML+CSS technology in China's application prospects are how to see.

Allan: It is a coincidence that CSDN was launched on the 3rd day after the revision of the Flash-guest empire. There is no doubt that this is definitely the future trend, whether or not to refactor the site, its content-design-Program separation ideas in the first few years have begun in the field of software development has been vigorously promoted, and CSS2. 0 Large-scale use is often present on a variety of CMS,ERP systems. Now as a site to use this structure for refactoring is a matter of time, the key is to see how the overall operation of the site and web standards of the technical structure of the organic combination, if only for the pursuit of a new technology to use is not worth it

The prodigal Son: Of course, there will be more and more Web sites to support the standard, it is only a matter of time. When the standard Web site highlights the advantages of the standard site to come, there should be a wave of web site restructuring.

NetEase College: For the domestic group of XHTML technology enthusiasts, you give a little message to it.

The prodigal son: to tell the truth, the implementation of Web standards is no mystery, nor much hardship. Can change their own way to make the traditional Web page, I will also feel happy. In fact, to pay is only learning, and harvest will be a lot. However, there is still a sentence to say, that is: "website standardization is not the goal, and strive to do their own site content, so that the site better service for users is the ultimate goal"

Allan: personally think that both XHTML and css2.0 their technical use is very easy, the key is to find in the continuous practice of how the site itself and the content of the structure of the system to combine the way. After the content is separated from the design and the program, more should be considered, how to organize the content, how to design the content structure is the most reasonable, XHTML and CSS are just a chain in this content organization. With the technology of Web Standard refactoring, more effort should be made to consider how to integrate content and use reasonable tags to organize it, and to expand and use it easily, rather than pursuing the special effects of CSS and XHTML.