With priorities changing, we've finally had a chance to get back to tabbed search results and have been making excellent progress. We're currently dealing with some design issues, quashing bugs and rendering inconsistencies, looking at accessibility issues, and engaging OIT as we look for a reliable hosting solution that includes PHP5.

Needless to say, IE6 (and 7) have been problematic and are consuming far too much of our time but, we do need to support those offerings. At this point, running in Firefox 3.5.x, things are looking very good.

The quest for PHP5 may be a roadblock. We'd intended that tabbed search be flexible and extensible so that other groups could add search implementations to go against sources other than the Google Search Appliance and be able to render those results appropriately. Leveraging the better support for XML and classes/object-oriented programming in PHP5 is what makes this not only possible but, relatively easy. Backing down to PHP4 would be a detriment to the project, and require the mangling of good, working code.

Ongoing issues aside, we don't have it running on a publicly available site but, here's a screen shot of where the front-end is at the moment.