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New Daily Mirror Site

The new Daily Mirror site is great, I like it a bit better than the old. I just get the strangest error when I visit it on my phone. It says “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” I don’t know if it’s a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 or what but it’s weird. But then it lets me view the site anyways. I thought my phone had been hacked for a while. The Daily Mirror is still innovating (in Sri Lankan terms) online, so good luck to them.

Posted on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 in Computers, Photography, Tech.

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Deane

2010-01-12 11:25:15

It doesn’t have category RSS feeds, which is annoying. but overall much better.

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indi

2010-01-12 12:20:31

I dunno what it’s running on, it’s not WordPress. It seems like custom PHP

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Mahasen

2010-01-12 12:45:35

Has it not aped the NY Times style.
Is that why we find it so familiar ?
see

Extreamly slow from this part of the world.
It takes more than a minute to download.

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K FLYER

2010-01-12 13:16:03

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K FLYER

2010-01-12 13:22:26

However, it is running on Joomla.

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St. Fallen

2010-01-12 14:24:01

try http://mobile.dailymirror.lk
works fine on my phone, via Opera Mini 5
what browser are you using, and what’s the phone?

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Jay

2010-01-12 22:24:41

Its definitely running on joomla.. a little control + U goodness from firefox and code analysis confirms that :)

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indi

2010-01-13 00:15:37

interesting. They tried WordPress a while back but I think caching problems crashed their server. Perhaps Joomla is better out of the box

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K FLYER

2010-01-13 07:23:38

I think it is more due to expanded CMS functions in Joomla. But still that copyright tag makes me think it is an older version.

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