Some folks out there may have had a chance to see the partially complete dogfood version of beta.msn.com that was available for some time last week. Its mostly turned off now, since we are still building and testing out components as we experiment on a new design. The new design for MSN.com incorporates some of our start.com features with the traditional homepage. If we can get this all to play nice together, we are hoping to have something that is far more relevant to the daily user than our current newspaper style page.

 

Lots of folks out there noticed that the page didn't work in browsers other than IE, (most notably Firefox). That's because this early in the development process we are just playing with features and seeing what works together, but don't go through full browser compatability passes. (it's a bit of a waste when you throw chunks of code away).

  

And what's with the lack of capitalization the other posters on are site are doing? That was the style in the '70s.

 

The Medium is the Massage, I guess.

 

Mark Hancheroff

Program Manager