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Failed Redesign: MSN UK Entertainment

After reading Joe Clark’s blog entry on failed redesigns I thought I’d keep an eye out for UK sites failing to meet web standards after a redesign. Well I went looking a moment ago and from the following article Netimperative - MSN redesigns UK entertainment channel trooped off to the MSN UK Entertainment website.

Visually, it’s very clean and simple - under the hood though? Oh my God!

  • No doctype ;)
  • in-line JavaScript
  • JavaScript to give Jeremy Keith a fit (probably)
  • Tables! lots and lots of tables
  • in-line Styles
  • multiple   to force white-space
  • Unescaped ampersands (naturally)

I could probably go on. They have the cheek to say this is accessible? When they are using an 8 point font size somewhere in there?

Pull the other one, it’s got Bill Gates on it.

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2 Responses to “Failed Redesign: MSN UK Entertainment”

  1. Derek Says:
    January 12th, 2006 at 3:59 pm

    I searched for recent redesigns on Netimperative and found that nearly all of them were just as bad :-

    Variety Club - a horror of frames and tables.

    CD:UK site - tables, invalid code…

    UK Red Cross - more tables and invalid code

    and lot, lots more besides.

  2. Altan Says:
    January 16th, 2006 at 9:27 pm

    Home Page Validation returns with this:

    Result: Failed validation, 808 errors