A demo made with love by Matt Boldt.

1998 - 1999

The
Apple Store

2000 - 2001

2001 - 2007(This design varied over the years)

2007 - 2010

2011 - Current

Hello.
These are search suggestions.

The Future (but probably not)

Hello.
These are search suggestions.

The Future (à la iOS 7)

Hello.
These are search suggestions.

Developed using Google Chrome for Mac. Works well in Firefox. Some animation issues in Safari.

All css & html is hand-written. Nav bar designs inspired by Apple. Thanks Wayback Machine!

jQuery handles things like element resizing on input focus, and search suggestion display logic.
Animations are CSS3's -transition property.

Note: The Apple Icons are, indeed, images. They are rendered in CSS with a Base64 background image.
So, you know, you can still copy and paste the code anywhere. I'm also using icon fonts for the magnifying glass icon in the search bar.