[LINK] SMH has stopped delivering text-display
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Wed Mar 9 09:40:14 AEDT 2011
The Sydney Morning Herald has had an increasingly ghastly home-page
(slow load-times because of the vast syndication and excessive
images, continual interruptions and re-positioning because of
frequent refreshes, and image completely dominating substance).
For us curmudgeons, it's always provided a text-only alternative:
http://www.smh.com.au/text/
But it's recently stopped posting articles under the National and
World categories. I can't see any way to get to the text of an
article without going through the horrible home-page, and browsing or
searching from there.
The Age site (unsurprisingly) is the same.
Does anyone know anyone on the Fairfax web-team?
Aside:
I checked how discoverable articles were using Google News.
It seems the <site:au> qualifier (same as <h:au>) is malfunctioning.
It returns zero hits whereas omitting it returns lots of Australian hits.
It still works on the unconstrained Google search-engine.
Well, okay, this is Google we're talking about:
Bugs ain't bugs; they're features.
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