2009/2/10 Huan Truong <huantnh at gmail.com>:
> 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.
Very nice seeks on both 360 and IE vs. FF.
360.yahoo.com is a beta stuff. That means: They are wearing a helmet
so don't report any bugs to them. The meaning of "beta" is different from
Google's: DIY, we only place a helpful banner in your brower.
Does 360 team, whose members are mostly Indian, be aware of Unicode?
Do they use YSlow ( a product of Yahoo FYI) to test 360 *outside* their network?
360 will stop this year and Yahoo will think bigger on a SNS service.
So Vietnamese 360 users ( a huge number!) can either switch to Yahoo's
new SNS server or other blogging systems.
The impact of blogging and bloggers on 8x ages worths a master thesis.
Does anyone already working on that?
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