Yahoo homepage goes CSS

Hardly a table in sight!

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There is an accompanying thread in the Yahoo Search forum, but I thought a more technical thread here might be appropriate also.

I was wondering what everyone thought about the new Yahoo home and search pages:

[yahoo.com...]
[search.yahoo.com...]

In both cases, a clean, tableless CSS-P design. The home page has all inline styles in the head section, both use HTML 4.01 rather than XHTML (the search page has a broken doctype and the main page has a half doctype to trigger quirks mode). Neither page validates, but it's mostly unquoted attribute values, unescaped ampersands and stuff (although the main page has a few block elements within inline elements). Note that they are browser sniffing, with older browsers getting the old design.

I think it's a great step forward for Yahoo away from the old crufy tag soup markup they are almost famous for.

[RammsteinNicCage]

Even though they kept the overall design "type", I'd say the new version looks a lot sleeker, the old one was too cluttered. But I don't always remember to look at the new spot that says how many email messages I have. :p

Jennifer

[chadmg]

It's about time. It's getting easier and easier to convince those needing convincing that a CSS based design is the way to go. It looks much better IMHO. I'm sure they will save on bandwidth, although they should cache the stylesheet.

On with the progress...

[createErrorMsg]

That Yahoo search page looks awfully familiar, doesn't it? Simple design, big old search box, two "o"s in the name...

[RammsteinNicCage]

Yahoo totally should have changed their name to Yaho when Google came out. ;)

Jennifer<--just noticed the MyYahoo Search Beta, that could be cool :)