Haha we can possibly debate this somewhere else, but it is exactly unsemantic. It’s the entire definition of unsemantic.
The #top and #bottom div contain nothing but an <img> tag, to an image that’s not content related, but simply a slice of a background image. If they wanted to use a sliced image, at least make it a background-image and not an embedded image tag. That would appease the semantics gods slightly.
But in all, they have absolutely no reason to be in the html except for design purposes. A good designer simply shouldn’t have to do that.
It also saddens me more because the rest of the site isn’t too poorly coded, and the aesthetics are generally pleasing!
Most definitely. It’s unbelievable that IE was still trying to catch up to implementing all of CSS2.1. I don’t remember who coined it first, but as designers we must not be afraid to have websites appear different in different browsers.
One of my newest favorite quotes is from a sitepoint member, Michael Morris, who stated