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Anil Dash does Amazon

15th June 2002

Anil Dash provides a copy of Amazon’s home page in HTML 4.0 Transitional, and it validates. Solid proof that you can rewrite a complex ecommerce site in valid HTML, and another victory for the web standards movement.

Posted 15th June 2002 at 9:11 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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