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    November 10

    Firefox and other browser support coming soon

    We've noticed a few comments about Firefox support so I wanted to address that quickly.  Currently we've released this beta with IE6 support only.  We want to gather user experience feedback before we go live to the rest of the world.  A very small portion of IE6 homepage users are being directed to the beta page, so if you're one of the few who were automatically pointed to the beta page, welcome.  We'd love to hear what you think of our new page.
     
    We're anticipating full support for Firefox soon, including all interactive options.  Other older browsers likely won't have the full functionality supported because of limitations in their javascript support.  We'll also have a downlevel page with all the default content, but no ability to expand/collapse modules or add stocks and weather or other modules.
     
    Please leave comments if you have thoughts or suggestions.  We'd love to hear what you think.
     
    Thanks,
     
    Kerry D. Woolsey,
    MSN Portals PM
     
    PS:  This is my favorite theme . . . LIME!
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    November 04

    MSN.com BETA is Live!!

    Its live!  We've now got the new page live with all our services hooked up.  Go take a look at the link below.  We are still working through a few minor issues before we start sending real traffic to this page, but all in all it looks pretty good.

    MSN.com BETA

    Here are a couple of the things you will see with this page:

    • Collapse and expand modules for content you do or don't like
    • Add modules for additional functionality (more coming soon)
    • Change to one of 5 themes
    • Personalize with your location
    • Add stocks
    • View your mail in the page (including deleting mail from the page)
    • Select an edition of the slideshow that matches your interests

    Currently, we've optimized this for the majority of our users which run IE on XP, and haven't completed work for alternate and downlevel browsers.  We're working on support for all major browsers, so stay tuned.

    We've also dramatically reduced the number of ads on the page.  WHEW! (been working on that one for a while)

    We're also using AJAX quite extensively, so you'll see the page load and data pop in after the page is usable.

    We'd love to hear from you about what you think.  Ad a comment or give us a trackback.  Tell us what you like and what you don't.  We're interested in hearing your opinions.

    Thanks,

    Kerry D. Woolsey,

    MSN Portals PM

     

    PS.  This is the "butterscotch" theme

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