Asian Age and browser compatibility
Published by Yazad Jal April 11th, 2005 in Web World, MediaI like the Asian Age, especially it’s features in the weekend edition, but I rarely link to articles written in the Age. There’s a good reason. If you use Firefox, like I do, you will not be able to view the Age’s website. Go on, click www.asianage.com. You’d get to see this:
“This page can only be seen in IE”
Compatibility:
Your web browser needs to support
HTML4.01, CSS2 and JavaScript to correctly view this page.
I’m not a techie, but I don’t think Firefox is deficient in the above areas (Techies, please give some gyan). Anyway, opening non-tabbed IE is a pain, so I skip the Age’s online goodies.
Not that the site is well designed or easily navigable. It looks like a relic of the 1990’s with frames and all. But one think that intrigued me as I went there today was M J Akbar’s blog. I think he’s the only editor of a major Indian daily to have a blog. The pieces may be largely a rehash of his signed editorials (he calls the column “byline”), but hey, the blog is Firefox friendly!
The impetus behind this rant was my urge to post on a piece regarding the Indian tourism industry written by Suhel Seth in the Age. The damn link to article doesn’t open even in IE. I give up!
You can use the User-Agent switcher extension for Firefox from http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/
and have your Firefox pretend to be IE 6 or any other browser you like.
The Asian Age site works on my Firefox masquerading as IE 6.
-Roshan
Use this
extension in firefox and just switch to IE while viewing the asian age site or any other similar stupidity(website design wise). Do switch back to default later.
Netscape is back (in beta at least) and gives you the ability to view a page using either the Mozilla or IE rendered - the best of both worlds?
It’s a pretty shitty looking weblog, for what it’s worth. Very FrontPageish design. But thankfully the permalinks lead to far better looking pages.
Also, why does he have to tom tom “author of several books” in his site header? Is he worried his words won’t carry enough weight unless he starts with telling you how accomplished he is?
Just that MJ Akbar’s blog is not an official blog but a sycophant’s tribute. Or that’s what I can make out of it.
S
You guys only see to the designs and not to the contents.I think you people are just psychos yourselves because many of you look from only negative angle and no positive comments! This is typical Indian mentality. At least one of you realise that MJ Akbar is the only Indian Editor and an author to have a blog of his own!
You guys only see to the designs and not to the contents.I think you people are just psychos yourselves because many of you look from only negative angle and no positive comments! This is typical Indian mentality. At least one of you realise that MJ Akbar is the only Indian Editor and an author to have a blog of his own!
You guys only see to the designs and not to the contents.I think you people are just psychos yourselves because many of you look from only negative angle and no positive comments! This is typical Indian mentality. At least one of you realise that MJ Akbar is the only Indian Editor and an author to have a blog of his own!
Well, riddle me this nikita, what is the point of having a news website if it doesn’t put across things you want to put across the way you want them put across?
The Indian mentality is too easy to hammer. Web wise too, a site’s being all compatible is something that keeps us from going back to the age when stuff depended on specific programs to be read. Wasn’t the point behind the WWW to do away with that?
“You guys only see to the designs and not to the contents”
Huh? The subject of the post is “Asian Age and browser compatibility”. So yeah, its pretty much about design issues and design wise there is nothing even remotely positive about that website.
Roshan and Swapnil, thanks for the tech info. I’ll check it out.
Nikita, maybe you haven’t read the first sentence of my post. Please go back and read it. And be patient while posting. That way, you won’t end up sending me your comment in triplicate.