Those of you already in the Web Dev community are likely to be aware of ESPN’s legendary CSS work on their Web site. To some, it is almost breathtaking, while to others it could even be considered overhyped. To me, ESPN did a fantastic job and it deserves some recognition, I think. Well, the man that brought upon ESPN’s changes is going to be doing the same for ABC.

Mike Davidson, art director behind the now-legendary ESPN.com CSS redesign, announces the redesign of ABC News, touting it as a success of real-world web standards. While the site’s new design successfully incorporates Flash, JavaScript, and CSS into an appealing, well-reasoned layout, I’m not exactly sure what real-world web standards means. It apparently doesn’t mean valid: the validator spews hundreds of errors at the time of this writing. Granted, Davidson admits that the overwhelming majority of errors…are ampersand-related and [they’re] fine with that, perhaps since valid code isn’t really required to meet their users’ needs.