Microsoft.com relaunches with a 100% CSS layout and multi-browser support. Not much time to play around with it but we (kinda) like it. What do you think?
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November 22, 2011
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December 16, 2006
I’m pleased, but I think redoing the page with valid XHTML would be better.
December 16, 2006
why inline styles! seems like they are displaying different css for different browsers.
December 16, 2006
I think it’s a bold move in the right direction.
December 16, 2006
I think the right column “All Microsoft Sites” should align with the top of the main graphics, and the vertical tabs at the bottom should change on click instead of hover.
In in all I think the design is awesome. Clean style, nice graphics, a lot more whitespace than the previous.
Maybe a bit over the top with the DHTML pop-up thing. But “eyecandy wise” I like it a lot.
December 17, 2006
They did a good job but their code is still quite messy.
December 17, 2006
@ Erlend: they’re using some sort of CMS, and if you worked with any enterprise CMS, it always spits out cluttered, messy code – Microsoft has been a leader of messy code for like a decade now.
December 17, 2006
I hope they are eating their own dog food and using Sharepoint…
December 17, 2006
This sort of navigation is not well working on the web, I think. It’s slow and not quite handy.
And yes, they are migrating everything to SharePoint 2007 (good luck…), but I don’t get why they present this kind of new design before they are even done with it…
December 18, 2006
The textile parser keeps mangling my attempt at quoting some of the code from the redesign, but see if this looks like best-practice markup/presentation/behaviour to you:
a style=“filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=’/global/14f63294-2be9-44f8-b908-8dc503fa7a62.png’);” onclick=“WTID;” href=“http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssitp0150000010mrt/direct/01/”
As far as I’m concerned, the above shows that MS either are still not hiring the right kind of web developer, or they just don’t get best practices.
December 18, 2006
I like how clean and fresh it is but essentially it’s a bunch of wank. I really like what MS did with the Vista designs & a few others. This is almost in line but already looks outdated somehow :|
December 18, 2006
All I can say, is “Thank God!” they’re finally embracing CSS and XHTML – even if they aren’t doing a good job at it.
It’s a step in the right direction. And while it’s sad, that’s about all I’ve come to expect from Microsoft these days.
December 18, 2006
It’s progress, but one cannot be really happy about their (invalid) code on a more than 200 KB homepage [1].
[1] http://uitest.com/en/check/results/?url=http://microsoft.com/
December 19, 2006
They are still working on..
http://www.microsoft.com/about/mspreview/en/us/abouthomepage.mspx
December 26, 2006
@Daniel Scrivner
its not xhtml!
didn’t realize a table gets a 1em font setting. ;d
December 16, 2006
@Daniel Scrivner
its not xhtml!
didn’t realize a table gets a 1em font setting. ;d
December 16, 2006
They are still working on..
http://www.microsoft.com/about/mspreview/en/us/abouthomepage.mspx
December 16, 2006
It’s progress, but one cannot be really happy about their (invalid) code on a more than 200 KB homepage [1].
[1] http://uitest.com/en/check/results/?url=http://microsoft.com/
December 16, 2006
All I can say, is “Thank God!” they’re finally embracing CSS and XHTML – even if they aren’t doing a good job at it.
It’s a step in the right direction. And while it’s sad, that’s about all I’ve come to expect from Microsoft these days.
December 16, 2006
I like how clean and fresh it is but essentially it’s a bunch of wank. I really like what MS did with the Vista designs & a few others. This is almost in line but already looks outdated somehow :|
December 16, 2006
The textile parser keeps mangling my attempt at quoting some of the code from the redesign, but see if this looks like best-practice markup/presentation/behaviour to you:
a style=“filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=’/global/14f63294-2be9-44f8-b908-8dc503fa7a62.png’);” onclick=“WTID;” href=“http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssitp0150000010mrt/direct/01/”
As far as I’m concerned, the above shows that MS either are still not hiring the right kind of web developer, or they just don’t get best practices.
December 16, 2006
This sort of navigation is not well working on the web, I think. It’s slow and not quite handy.
And yes, they are migrating everything to SharePoint 2007 (good luck…), but I don’t get why they present this kind of new design before they are even done with it…
December 16, 2006
I hope they are eating their own dog food and using Sharepoint…
December 16, 2006
@ Erlend: they’re using some sort of CMS, and if you worked with any enterprise CMS, it always spits out cluttered, messy code – Microsoft has been a leader of messy code for like a decade now.
December 16, 2006
They did a good job but their code is still quite messy.
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