Isn’t it time for Associated Press and likes to think again? What is that we are trying to talk about. The issue is quite simple. When organziations in India, test their websites to be compatible for both Internet Explorer and Firefox, shouldn’t the giants like Associated Press, review the browser compatiblity test case? Else they are definitely going to loose a good number of firefox users from viewing their news. A normal web metric analysis would reveal that today firefox, mozilla and safari have made some significant inroads in the browser market. As the week’s progress and more number of IE security holes getting exploited these organizations need to understand the importance of meeting the needs of different browsers.
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Earlier this month, the Associated Press launched a streaming video offering for its partner newspapers, so they could offer video on their websites. There was just one problem: it only worked on Microsoft IE on Windows. While Microsoft still has the majority of the browser market share, that’s still an odd decision. Firefox and other browsers do have enough marketshare to matter at this point, especially among early adopters and the type of people you’d want to watch the video. The same is true of the Mac community. This raised a lot of discussion online, and it appears that at least one newspaper company has turned down the AP until they figure out how to make the service cross-platform compatible. It’s nice to see a newspaper willing to stand up for its users — as this seems like the type of story that could just generate a lot of discussion, without the newspapers actually doing anything, leaving the AP to stick with it’s Windows IE-only policy.