Today i wanted to play a friend in a game of chess. I have a Yahoo account so i decided to play him on Yahoo.
Yahoo have recently upgraded their system and its causing errors for alot of users. It seems you need to a certain version of Flash to play ( I have Flash 9). After trying for about an hour to find a solution to the answer i decided to use the Java client to play chess (the old method). That also would not work and would not report any errors as to why. I have Java enabled, but it seemed to just hang as it loaded. After a while i thought forget it and went to MSN to play him in chess. I spent a while setting him up an account on MSN (he is a poor internet user). All worked fine ... for him. Im using a Mac, so when i went to the MSN site it said you need XP or 2000 to play and you need IE. Great! After 2 hours i gave up. I wanted to use Yahoo or MSN. My friend (who is old in his age) was getting annoyed and i was annoyed. We opted to leave it and meet up in the week for a game of chess. Personally i feel todays problems are a great example of poor accessibility. To conclude. Yahoo's new system has bugs that are affecting alot of people and are stopping people accessing their services. MSN are trying to create yet another centralized service where Mac users are locked out of their services. Yahoo's problems can be seen as teething problems but MSN's are ignorance. Ps. Sorry if there are spelling/grammer mistakes. I'm a little ill today and concerntration is not at its best. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
