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Yahoo! Japan got worse

Wednesday, 2. January 2008, 12:12:05

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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,

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 :wink: 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. :faint:
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.

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Joey, what is it?

Wednesday, 9. May 2007, 07:04:29

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Yesterday morning, I've read an article, which some of you guys cited in various ways, from OS News.
I was interested in the mobile part, of the series of pages, like most of you. I just laughed at it and didn't want to point out what's not real, or so. Thank you for the interesting story, lawyer, thanks.

There is an interesting project among them, which I came to know with that interview. Joey, Firefox's add-on. At first, I read the interview, then open the wiki page, so I thought it works like OperaMini. But as wiki described, it just sends page you view to the server, the server transforms the contents into some full-desktop-grade-but-suitable-for-mobile, then the mobile devices re-transforms it to display on the small screen. That's what I understood. How can we control the pages on the screen, of the mobile devices you have? No ways? Is it one-way transfer of the contents what you view on the desktop PC?

I have never met any person within Moz community who is interested in mobile Firefox or Minimo. They used to say, do you like to view pages on such a small screen?

I think the most difficult problem for the Joey project is resources of human being. Among the free software communities, volunteers often come to the popular projects, with or without wages. Unpopular projects end up soon or later, as we learned from Fedora Legacy Project.

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End of Firefox 1.5.x support

Wednesday, 25. April 2007, 00:31:54

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Well, as announced earlier, Firefox 1.5.x series lost official support today.

Firefox 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2.


I use 2.0.x on Windows box, but still have 1.5.x on Linux. Fedora Core 6, the latest public distribution from Fedora project, offer 1.5.x as their key application. They offer rpm package of Firefox 2.0.x only at Development repository. So we can get it and use it with related, dependent packages like Epiphany or Galeon.
Fedora project will offer security patches in the future, if they need them, for 1.5.x of Firefox. Fedora is Linux, so its use is by one's own risks, OK.

What about Windows users? There seems to be quite a lot of Windows 95/98/Me users out there. As far as I know, on those Windows, 2.x or above Firefox doesn't work as expected. Some may invent tricks, and will make it work there, in the real world, though there might be no official support.

[Edit] On very close to the end day, they offered the announcement that it will extend to the mid of the next month. Confused!

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