New live.com
I started this post from Erik Porter’s blog. I saw and played with new live.com. I like the design, functionality and general idea, but … there are some ‘buts’:
- At least, for general information, feeds and search is similar with start.com, another Microsoft project (?). Same Web 2.0 ideas, page organization and even Passport login. It’s true that live.com has a very nice and interesting (futuristic ?) design, I really like.
- Lots of new stuff, like those macros but maybe some are still beta. See these problems:
First problem is that search box is under the logo, when resizing. Second, see how text is displayed when window is resized. Then, third one is a fatal error and nothing happen when opening this job macro search.
- Then, there is a problem with standards, or maybe is not a problem at all?
- I’d expect a tooltip for scrolling buttons. Also, I think is a problem this client-side scrolling because is far from smooth, on many computers. Normal browser scrolling is fast, smooth and more intuitive, not the same as this JavaScript solution.
Although somehow hidden (b.htm ?), pages use IIS & ASP.NET, I think (live.com/login.aspx). Is this an experimental site or something we’ll see live, without “beta” ?
I’m really curious what future will bring in web development because looks like each month there is something new and innovative.