Reader using Netscape can’t read my blog.
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Hi,
Someone has been trying to read my blog but he says it freezes up on the first page and goes no further. He says another wordpress blog does the same thing. He’s using Netscape (don’t know the version.)
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well, the quickest solution is to ask that person to use another browser. i haven’t heard of viewing problems in netscape but there are many complaints for ie6. other browsers no complaints or hardly at all.
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You have an awful lot of stuff that loads on your main page: large photos, a YouTube video, plus numerous posts going back to mid-January. You may want to cut the number of posts displayed on the main page (Options->Reading), and you may want to consider making the photos smaller or using thumbnails.
I suspect all that content is maxing out the browser.
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The one day I’m at the school with IE and not Netscape. Who would have guessed it? :)
Pictures are rather big. I’d hate to be viewing your blog over a dial up line. I actually have a lot of problems with viewing blogs around here with Netscape 7.1 but I think that’s because of it’s lack of true div support. 7.2 usually works fine.
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Thanks for the suggestion, everyone. I’ll cut back on the number of posts that show up and the bloat on the jpgs. I have also suggested he try firefox to see if that helps. I’ll keep you posted.
Err, just a thought… does dial-up still exist? -
Approximately 25-30% of people using the internet are on dial-up service. It’s also interesting to note that those with English as their mother tongue are a minority on the internet.
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Um, more like 70-80% actually are still on dial up. At least that’s what I see at my own routers on average.
At UNCC today. I see no issue with your blog using Netscape 7.1 and that’s the broken one. Maybe if you could get the commenter to pin down the issue a bit more…
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Wow, I didn’t realise dial-up was still so widespread. I guess where you live has a lot to do with it. I live in Germany. When I switched to high-speed cable, I tried to sell my 56k modem, but ended up dumping it. Couldn’t give it away.
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well, i think someone said (drmike?) that a large percentage of internet users around the world don’t even speak english, or something to that effect.
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They dont’ have English as their mother tongue, but the lingua franca of the internet is English, no question. I know Indians who email other Indians in English even though they’ve never left India in their lives. It works with the keyboards, the support material is all in English, it has a natural hegemony because of the way the Internet was developed. Most people online communicate in English, even if it’s not hteir first language.
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la, then that doesn’t sound so bad. english isn’t so much about having lived abroad, though. i’ve never left my country before and english is my mother tongue. maybe there are indians like that too.
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raincoaster – the reasons Indians tend to use English is that there is no single “Indian” language – there are several hundred in common use. Hindi is the most common (and encouraged by the government), but that is spoken mainly in the northern regions, around Delhi.
Putonghua (“Mandarin” Chinese) is the next most commonly “spoken” language on the net.
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Update:
Firefox does it again! My reader reports that once he installed firefox, the problem went away. -
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