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Hotbot redesign

19th December 2002

Douglas Bowman provides some background to the new HotBot redesign, which uses CSS for layout and almost but doesn’t quite validate. It was all looking great until the HotBot Skins page told me I should upgrade to a browser that supports web standards (I was using Phoenix).

Posted 19th December 2002 at 1:06 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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