Yahoo! Japan got worse
Wednesday, 2. January 2008, 12:12:05
After Beta testings for a while, Yahoo! Japan opened the new top page since yesterday, 1st of Jan. 2008. It requires wide screen, over 1000px(!), and further worse for us, Opera users, if we turn FtWW on, the main contents are located far below.
But if you try to open that page with Minefield, you can read, though in Japanese, a warning,
As you see, no Opera is there. We have to try to persuade Yahoo! Japan to add Opera, but they offer us full contents at present, contrary to the above statements
It might be lucky for us. Thanks for 'wonderful' technologies.
You can see 3 columns design with Opera, IE or Firefox2, anyways. But their 'wonderful' browser detection rejects Minefield. They perhaps read 'Firefox', not 'Gecko', to recognize 'that' popular browser.
With Minefield, new Yahoo! Japan is 2 colmuns style with other outdated, basic browsers. So some of the users and developers of it started to write about it by now. I can't believe there aren't any Minefield users at Yahoo! Japan though.
Poor design, poor UA detection, and above all, hateful 'Use those enviroments' at site which has the largest number of visitors in this country.
N.B. Yahoo! Japan is independent from yahoo.com or any other yahoo around the world.
[4th, Jan] They have fixed this issue. Now Gecko can show you full contents.
But if you try to open that page with Minefield, you can read, though in Japanese, a warning,
To use all functions of Yahoo! JAPAN, you need below environments;
Windows：Internet Explorer 5.5 or above, 6.x、7.x / Firefox 2.0 or above, Macintosh：Safari 2.x
As you see, no Opera is there. We have to try to persuade Yahoo! Japan to add Opera, but they offer us full contents at present, contrary to the above statements
It might be lucky for us. Thanks for 'wonderful' technologies.You can see 3 columns design with Opera, IE or Firefox2, anyways. But their 'wonderful' browser detection rejects Minefield. They perhaps read 'Firefox', not 'Gecko', to recognize 'that' popular browser.
With Minefield, new Yahoo! Japan is 2 colmuns style with other outdated, basic browsers. So some of the users and developers of it started to write about it by now. I can't believe there aren't any Minefield users at Yahoo! Japan though.
Poor design, poor UA detection, and above all, hateful 'Use those enviroments' at site which has the largest number of visitors in this country.
N.B. Yahoo! Japan is independent from yahoo.com or any other yahoo around the world.
[4th, Jan] They have fixed this issue. Now Gecko can show you full contents.
WIDGETIZE
Anonymous # 3. January 2008, 12:23
If you are interseted in your 2nd browser, look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410394