What a joke.

It’s on Most peoples Home Page. Even if I want to type yahoo… my fingers type google before I think of it.

The New advertising of Media, has alot to do with your fingers being addicted to the same address…

I’m Googly Hit!

Second of all, if Microsoft will continue to dominate, there will be almost no new companies emerging, and all going back to MS.

Oh By the way, you gotta check maps.google.com
Wow… Really well done!

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Find a way to do that without tables in a way that works across all browsers, doesn’t require fixed-width or pixel-specified page layouts, and is not a completely ugly hack and win a prize.

The first has been done, by a number of people, for instance, that is if I understand what you are saying: http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/ – beautiful, not hacked to death, works in the browsers I use beautifully.

However, you know on the second note, that no CSS layout will work across all existing browsers. Demanding such is relatively asinine, seeing that many browsers were developed prior to the existence of CSS. Additionally, many browsers don’t process CSS correctly, and blaming that on CSS is like blaming Linux for not running natively on Windows.

Sounds to me like Simon merely doesn’t like CSS because he can’t develop in it well. If you are still using table based layouts predominantly, you might want to read “Who Moved My Cheese.”

I always get a whiff of rush when the mega sites change over to tableless designs.

Although MSN does’nt provide very relevant results in one shot compared to google, but I believe that if we keep using MSN for a while and theres a definite increase in their demographics, that would encourage them to make MSN more Solid. I’ve ditched google for the new MSN.

Moreover, If you take a close at Google’s business strategies for 2004-2005, there are a lot of things which frightens me as a user. Google Sucks!

MSN SEARCH rocks! Learn it, live it, love it.

Or just search.

It’s the fact that the errors are low and it’s displaying good in virtually all browsers for the most part.

So I too agree. Code = good. Design = Bad. And maybe bad is a little harsh. Being cooporate makes it harder to do what you want. You have to take into account ads, super flexibility, and being very neutral. Afterall, the usability was probably their main goal for the redesign.

As you may or may not know, the next version of Visual Studio .NET, used to create ASP.NET web-applications, is currently in beta, and renders fully standards compliant markup by default — unlike the current version. Microsoft is probably already using this beta for its own websites.

Just my 2 cents…

Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to come up with a way of laying out text such that you can place fixed width/height elements at the corners of a DIV, fixed height repeating horizontally tiled elements at the top and bottom center position, and fixed width repeating vertically tiled elements at the left and right center positions. The center position must be filled by content, and the overall width and height of the DIV will be determined by whatever dimensions are necessary to fit the content into the display.

Eg. on a given page, the center area might be the width of the page minus the width of the two sides, and the height will expand to fit the content as it is reflowed.

Find a way to do that without tables in a way that works across all browsers, doesn’t require fixed-width or pixel-specified page layouts, and is not a completely ugly hack and win a prize.

So, raise your glass high and cheers to MSN for helping me convert my local IE/Mac users to Firefox at long last! CHEERS!!!

It’s a fine example of positive impact being drawn from pure stupidity and/or negligence.

The homepage is ready to syndicate, or whatever it is you do with XML…

The design may not be that inspiring but how many of us look back at our first standards based designs and cringe?