I'm getting redirected to Yahoo's mobile site for some reason. Chrome 24 on Ubuntu 12.04.
Are you at a hotel by any chance? Anytime I stay at a hotel and access any Yahoo property it pushes me to the mobile sites.
Marissa Mayer Rolls Out a New Yahoo.com
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#22Where is the yodel when you click on the exclamation mark ? :)
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#23I can't understand why they have two headers and search boxes, right on top of each other. http://i.imgur.com/muXk97p.png ED: The Australian redirect is to a completely different website than the American one. That's confusing.
Going directly to http://au.yahoo.com/ doesn't show the upper search box.
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#24I must be missing something. I haven't been to yahoo.com in a long time, but this looks very similar to what I remember, just slightly updated for last year's style. http://i.imgur.com/Z0EH12W.jpg
Looks like they are still rolling out the new version.
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#25I must be missing something. I haven't been to yahoo.com in a long time, but this looks very similar to what I remember, just slightly updated for last year's style. http://i.imgur.com/Z0EH12W.jpg
As a piece of web software, I find it pretty dull, but when I think of it as a replacement to a newspaper for my parents, it makes a whole lot of sense.
First of all, it is actually a major boost in organization and clean design. The options on the left have been reduced to a smaller and easier-to-read list. The center feed is evenly paced and better at snagging your interest while casually scrolling through. The right has been turned into a set of info widgets-- weather, stock quotes, sport scores, some appealing photos and videos if you're just clickin around, coming birthdays if you're hooked up to FB, and horoscopes. If I'm thinking about a modern newspaper, that's about it.
I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetic, but it's familiar to its userbase, and almost entirely uncomplicated. I think Yahoo should call it a win.
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#26I must be missing something. I haven't been to yahoo.com in a long time, but this looks very similar to what I remember, just slightly updated for last year's style. http://i.imgur.com/Z0EH12W.jpg
You have to go to the us homepage try http://us.yahoo.com/
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#27I can't understand why they have two headers and search boxes, right on top of each other. http://i.imgur.com/muXk97p.png ED: The Australian redirect is to a completely different website than the American one. That's confusing.
Going directly to http://au.yahoo.com/ doesn't show the upper search box.
Odd, it does so for me when I click your link.
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#28I can't understand why they have two headers and search boxes, right on top of each other. http://i.imgur.com/muXk97p.png ED: The Australian redirect is to a completely different website than the American one. That's confusing.
Mine's even worse: http://f.cl.ly/items/3v2U1h1k1v1T3p453J3t/Image%202013.02.21...
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#29Y U no responsive design?
There are plenty of people who dislike responsive designs for good reasons. It is not the fault of responsive designs itself but the fault of many mobile browsers like Mobile Safari and Chrome for iOS. Here is what I mean: Responsive websites usually don't let you zoom in by panning. Everything is fixed. If you want the text to be larger you are out of luck on the browsers mentioned above. On iOS you cannot make the…
Disabling zoom is done independently of CSS RWD, and should generally be avoided for the accessibility reasons you state. Preferring zoom-and-pan to scrolling is a separate issue, but I haven't seen or heard much to indicate its a common sentiment.
It sounds like what you dislike is poorly done RWD, which only addressed the aesthetic of the small viewport and not the unique navigation & content challenges (unfortunately common).