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James Posted…

Anyone else notice the file size is almost half? Image if Amazon implemented this, they would reduce bandwidth by 30-40%. Saving them a great deal of money. THIS is why CSS layout will rule, forget standards and accessibility. If you can save money for a company, you have them.

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francois Posted…

Of course, it completely falls over on old browsers. Do you think they could risk serving an all-CSS version based on a server-side browser detection? Or is identifying user agents just too unreliable?

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Matt Round Posted…

I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, it’s great to see someone’s had a go. The fact it falls over in older browsers shouldn’t worry anyone–with the right markup it’s easy to give older browsers a simpler style sheet/layout (e.g. fixed width using absolute positioning instead of variable width with float). Hmm maybe I should have a go at Yahoo, shouldn’t be difficult to improve upon their hopeless redesign...

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francois Posted…

I think someone already has, Matt, according to this.

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Matt Round Posted…

Hmm interesting, might still do it though as I want to have a go at improving the design & usability too (and get it working in browsers other than Mozilla!)

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Ross Posted…

There is another Amazon redesign, with slightly more changed than the one here. Mainly a drop in the amount of graphics used–the tabs etc.