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: languages, support of regional-language- rendering becomes important for India.
Google Chrome fares well on the rendering of Hindi fonts on some of the popular news portals.
Chrome’s rendering of some of the other popular Indian languages such as Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malyalam and Bengali doesn’t seem to work (and on FireFox), but works great on Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.
For example I looked at http://gujaratonline.com/ , http://www.saamana.com/ (for Marathi news), http://www.kannadaprabha.com/ (for Kannada news), http://www.manoramaonline.com/ (for Malyalam news) and http://www.aajkaal.net/ (for Bengali news).
My guess is that IE7 has access to some Microsoft internal font rendering technology that allows it to show these regional fonts properly, and also that these websites haven’t used proper techniques for font rendering. In either case, what that means is people reading regional sites will continue to browse them through IE.
Google Chrome’s speed is definitely going to help people browse faster, especially with slow Internet connections. The basic HTTP protocol may not have changed, but advanced threading techniques and JavaScript speed enhancements, will make browsing experience in India equally fast....
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