Yahoo Search uses CSS
12th April 2003
In all the fuss about Yahoo’s new search interface over the past few days, the extensive use of CSS in the results pages was almost completely overlooked, probably because the page still contains a small layout table for the top and bottom navigation. The results themselves are served up as a styled ordered list, at least for modern browsers (thanks to a server side browser sniffer). More information in this message from Yahoo’s Brian Ghidinelli, who is seeking feedback.
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