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jeffsand
Inch by Inch

Start.com episode 3 - pass the quiz the end result is worth it.

LarryOsterman

Absolutely stellar. I'm DARNED impressed.

longzheng

Great use of Ajax, but the UI design is still lacking I think.

DoomBringer
Doom!

!
it is sooo shiney!

DoomBringer
Doom!

cheater!

longzheng

Beer28 wrote:
It was broken in firefox and I pulled out IE6 on my linux laptop with wine and it still wouldn't work. Then I cheated and looked at the source code.

var m_q = [ ["what month did Florida become a state?", "march", "http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=statehood+of+florida&FORM=QBRE"], ["what's the capital of Armenia?", "yerevan", "http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=capital+of+Armenia&FORM=QBHP"], ["who sang \"in the garage\"?", "weezer", "http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=in+the+garage&FORM=QBRE"], ["what is <i>x</i> in the equation: 2 pi + 2! = 3x - sin 2", "3.064", "http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=2+pi+%2B+2%21+%3D+3x+-+sin+2&FORM=QBRE"], ["who said \"he is able who thinks he is able\"?", "buddha", "http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%22He+is+able+who+thinks+he+is+able.%22++&FORM=QBRE"] ];}

march
yerevan
weezer
3.064
buddha

http://www.start.com/myw3b/

So was it just me or did it not accept the right answers for some reason??

at any rate that's the page.

I did it in Firefox and it was fine Smiley

Michael Griffiths
Fatalism.

jeffsand wrote:
Start.com episode 3 - pass the quiz the end result is worth it.

Awesome!

Expect some feedback. Smiley

Steve411

haha, it's OK Beer, I dug into the code as well.. Wink

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

<sigh>

harumscarum
out of memory

ditto.

pretty cool site. I could see a morning being wasted sifting through all the feeds.

Jaz
From the depths of Wales I come

is it me or is it extremely similar to what google were doing?

Aayush Puri

Well the marketing team also needs a pat on their back for thinking of such a great idea to promote the answering capabilities of MSN search!

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Beer28 wrote:
http://www.start.com/myw3b/

Hey cool! I'm famous! Big Smile

ZippyV
Fired Up

I'm not impressed either:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.start.com%2Fmyw3b%2F

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

ZippyV wrote:
I'm not impressed either:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.start.com%2Fmyw3b%2F

Actually, considering Microsoft's other sites, that's not too bad.

Virtually all the errors are caused by not properly encoding the ampersand symbol

As for the others, they can easily be rectified by doing some minor changes.

17 errors? Not bad considering some other sites.

ZippyV
Fired Up

<![if !IE]><script src="extern/wsfw/msncompat.js"></script><![endif]>

What is that?

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

ZippyV wrote:
<![if !IE]><script src="extern/wsfw/msncompat.js"></script><![endif]>

What is that?

Conditional Comments.

eagle

Cool site! MyMSN was getting tiresome, but I didn't like the placement of the two Web-Zines that pass themselves off as blogs.

Why not give a boost to Microsoft community blogs?

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

Excellent way to promote MSN Search! Smiley

mVPstar

NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN

I've always said that what MSN Search needs to beat Google is a URL of less than 6 letters within www. and .com.

Oh yeah, and search results that don't pale in comparison.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

I wish I had scrolled down before I actually took the quiz.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

Is it me or does the guy who posted this thread kind of favor Steve Jobs?

NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN

rjdohnert wrote:
Is it me or does the guy who posted this thread kind of favor Steve Jobs?

Wrong window, or did you mean "resemble"?

Dr. Shim
Inaniloquent monomathical people inlapidate me.

Is the design IE only? I couldn't get it to work in Opera.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

NeoTOM wrote:
rjdohnert wrote:Is it me or does the guy who posted this thread kind of favor Steve Jobs?

Wrong window, or did you mean "resemble"?

I meant resemble