On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Huan Truong <huantnh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also FYI, from my experiences, one of the reasons that make many > Vietnameses use firefox is actually funny: IE was never able to > display Viet characters in Yahoo 360* blogs because Yahoo 360* team > decided to have a retarded decision, according to which they use > Georgia as the default font. As Georgia doesn't have Unicode glyphs, > IE renders them as question marks, which annoys the hell out of those > 360* readers. > > So, they either had to override the font settings in IE for every web > page or to use firefox, which has a better approach to display Unicode > glyphs in Georgia: it takes the glyphs from Times New Roman. I think > 90% of the Viets out there read blogs from their friends, so using > something that is not IE is... something, you know, obvious. > > So please give my regards to the Yahoo 360* team! > Really? My friend writes her 360 blog and read her friends' ones very frequently although she doesn't have any Firefox installed at all :-/ I really love Firefox but... Should we compare Firefox and IE by download while most Vietnamese users use Windows with built-in IE so they have no need to download it? Ngoc Minh. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20090210/1f9e4303/attachment-0001.htm
