[thelist] MSN redisgn... utter failure

Buffington, Michael michael.buffington at office.xerox.com
Fri Jan 9 14:21:31 CST 2004


>> msn.com as many of you have probably seen, has been redesigned.
>>
>> it's horrid.  open it on mozilla.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3841239/
>> their articles page is completly destroyed.
>>
>> how can such a profound corporate site get away with that?

>They don't have to care.  They have no interest in anyone being able to do  
>anything with any other browser other than theirs, and I'm guessing it  
>works in theirs, so why should they spend any more time on it?

>I'm surprised people are surprised by this.  XHTML and the semantic web  
>are not ideas MS has supported either vocally or practically.  Why would  
>they design a site by standards that their own browser can't deal with?

>TjL

No interest? Please, were talking about Microsoft here, the company that's hell bent on squeezing dollars out of anything that twitches, including Mozilla users. I give it a week or less before it works in Mozilla (saying nothing of XHTML standard or semantic web).

Mike


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