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Giving them some credit

Ok, my last blog entry on the MSNBC redesign was a little harsh. It is much better than FoxNews.com, but I still miss some of the old design.

However, I will give them credit for building the new site from the ground up to support Safari and Firefox.

When the redesign efforts began in earnest over a year ago, however, we decided to rethink that approach. We started by retooling our browser support matrix to include both Firefox and Safari as “top-tier,” meaning that if our work didn’t work in those browsers, it didn’t get released. We armed ourselves with an arsenal of 17-inch Macbook Pros, not just for testing but for actual development work (much of the HTML and CSS was initially written using TextMate).

That is very commendable.

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