Firefox is delightful. I use it, and you should too. However, for the small demographic of Uyghur-reading Firefox readers, there’s the problem that on many pages the Uyghur script doesn’t render correctly. It’s a bummer, and it’s without a doubt due to the fact that in China people are mostly still using Internet Explorer… 6.0. *pained sad face* When you’re browsing these sites in Firefox some of them look like this:
However, just the other day I ran into a Firefox extension called IETab, which opens webpages with Internet Explorer right there inside Firefox. After installing it, you can right-click a link and select open in IE tab inside Firefox, or you can press an icon in the lower right corner to send the page you’re browsing to an IE tab. There are some rare and oddball situations where you just have to open a page in good ole’ Internet Explorer. This happens a lot when you’re browsing poorly designed pages based in and mostly accessed from China. Unfortunately, this pretty much includes almost all non-diasporic Uyghur sites. And so it is a must have for Uyghur language browsers using Firefox. Here’s what it looks like, inside an IE Tab that is inside Firefox:
Beats opening up a whole new window and starting a separate browsing session, in my opinion.
Oh, and the little sample clips above are taken from Salkin Web’s news site and show the site’s discussion of a 13 year old British kid who apparently fathered a child with his 15 year old girlfriend. Jumpin’ Jehosaphat! This is quite a shocker even for us in the debauched West; I’m sure the shock value is twenty times bigger for the Uyghur readers of Salkin.
