"Its", not "it's", is the possessive form of "it". The current headline reads "India launches beta version of it is data site."
India Launches Beta Version of Its Data Site
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#22Why is it that contires such as india seems to be behind in the way of website design, the design is just too busy for me and the styles/colours remind me of early 2000 sites.
Most of the government IT projects won't have any designers (or professional designers) unless they are related to designs as such. The designs are mostly created by the programmers over there and most of the times it will be to the liking of the bureaucracy or who ever is in charge there. Appearance is last priority.
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#23Oh gods, the source code please no please kill it.
20+imports in css, 20+ script tags please no
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#24"Its", not "it's", is the possessive form of "it". The current headline reads "India launches beta version of it is data site."
This bugs me too, can someone please change it?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's rarely beneficial to compress to one single file, but I completely agree that the way they are doing it it very inefficient, especially spamming the @import notation.
Not sure what you mean by "rarely beneficial to compress to one single file". But in multiple situations I have seen significant web load performance improvements when the number of discrete files being loaded is reduced - merge all JS into one file, all CSS into another and sprite images. This is due to HTTP 2-connection rule.
And slow-start certainly contributes.
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#26Why is it that contires such as india seems to be behind in the way of website design, the design is just too busy for me and the styles/colours remind me of early 2000 sites.
Have you looked at sites by computer scientists? Like some of the Microsoft Research related sites? They serve the purpose. Don't expect them to be pleasant on your eyes.
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#27Why is it that contires such as india seems to be behind in the way of website design, the design is just too busy for me and the styles/colours remind me of early 2000 sites.
Yeah, when I saw the scrolling text I wanted to gouge my eyes out. It's straight out of 1999.
And for a country where mobile based access will presumably be quite common (as only 7% of the population has home internet), why isn't there a mobile site at launch?
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#28I don't think I've ever seen so many separate JavaScript and CSS-files used on a page before. Surely most, if not all, could be reduced into one?
Drupal 7 does this out of the box, with an option to aggregate and compress JS and CSS. I have not developed on Drupal 6 but would be incredibly surprised if there wasn't at least a community developed module to do this.
If I remember correctly this has been available out of the box at least since Drupal 5 up. Have worked on Drupal 5 and 6, don't remember using any custom module to do aggregation.
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#29Why is it that contires such as india seems to be behind in the way of website design, the design is just too busy for me and the styles/colours remind me of early 2000 sites.
Yeah, when I saw the scrolling text I wanted to gouge my eyes out. It's straight out of 1999. And for a country where mobile based access will presumably be quite common (as only 7% of the population has home internet), why isn't there a mobile site at launch?
Almost everyone has a mobile in India. But not many use Internet on their mobile devices. Situation is changing slowly with the arrival of really low - end smartphones, though.
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#30Notice the use of the phrase "allopathic hospitals" in a database of number of beds available!
It always cracks me up how modern medicine is referred to as just another form of medicine, like Ayurvedic or homeopathic. The Indian government is clearly of the opinion that forms of quackery that are homeopathy and Ayurveda actually work and are worthy of tax payer money.