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MSN Search - From A UI Perspective

Posted by timothy on from the competition-tunes-the-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The user interface community has also started poking and prodding away at the latest iteration of MSN search and has discovered some interesting findings including: XHTML strict, CSS for layout and the death of IE 5 support. You can also read first-hand MSN designer insight into the design process as well."

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  1. Re:IE 5 Support by qurve · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not really that hard if you know what you're doing. as for not implementing fixes and hacks, well unfortunately I live in the real world, not an ideal utopia where I can tell my clients users to go to hell.

  2. No I am not trolling by avandesande · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who cares about the UI? How good are the searches?

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  3. Mobile device consideration by wombatmobile · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Look through the imported style sheet on the home page, and you'll see several uses of @media handheld {} to target certain rules for handheld devices.

    Hey, that's good practise. The intent is for the one page to render appropriately for multiple device types. The web needs more implementations of this to make mobile browsing viable.

  4. Re:But still.... by arkanes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    JavaScript has zero (zilch, zip, nada, nothing, nowhere, nohow) to do with XHTML compliance. Also, compliance doesn't test ugliness or clutteredness.