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Browser Speed Benchmarks
It's worth checking out recent browser-speed benchmarks. The new beta of Operate placed very well in terms of performance:
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Re:What?
"Yeah, maybe, but older versions of Opera are faster than newer ones. Think about that!"
Is that so!How did you measure the speed? Opera 7 is clearly faster for browsing because of the UI features that make things easier and faster to do.
Also, you seem to be forgetting that Opera 7's engine does a lot more than Opera 6. Opera 7 can handle fully dynamic pages, something Opera 6 never could.
Conclusion: Opera 7 is faster at most things, and has a better and more efficient UI, but you are really comparing apples and oranges because Opera 7 was rewritten from the ground up to do a lot more than Opera 6 ever did.
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Re:XmlHttpRequest The Easy WayThat's a great tutorial there! The simplicity of the examples was key to figuring out what the minimum important parts to using this system is without being confused by the many cool things you can do with the system, but are extra.
For those reading, I recommend that you follow that tutorial with this one which then goes into more depth on generic request/responce scripts and XML handling.
Oh yeah, it took me a while to find these, so I'll add this list of pages that explained how to do the things that I wanted to do while going through the tutorial. There are just so many crap sites that repeat the same rubbish tutorials about javascript that it can be really hard to find good info.
- General Javascript documentation: http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/qu
i ckref/javascript_intro.html - Writing to <div> tags from Javascript: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/index.php?
t ut=0&part=14#dhtmlCONT - Accessing XML Nodes from Javascript: http://www.mozilla.org/xmlextras/xmldataislands/
Every other tutorial I found says to use something like node.firstChild.text for getting the value of an element, but I couldn't get that working on Firefox or Safari. This just mentions to use node.firstChild.nodeValue which did the trick for me.
- General Javascript documentation: http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/qu
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Re:Quality
Everybody already knows the answer to this question: Because those two features are simply not a priority for the IE development team. I'd be very disappointed if such an obvious and shallow question made the cut, displacing what might be a more interesting question.
On the PNG issue, use AlphaImageLoader. Works like a charm. -
Re:Be careful...
2) Slow to use: Is Opera slow?
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Re:not even close!Actually there is a trick to make it work in IE, and it's a small amount of code:
Making IE use PNG alpha transparency
Now you can use PNGs willy nilly!
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Re:All that's missing
I wonder if it's possible to implement a DHTML hack for proper PNG support
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Re:Blech...
It overrides my default font with something they presumably thought was better. Why? Was there any good reason for this? Or was it just another example of CSS overdesign?
Just going out on a limb here, but they probably figured they'd provide a nicer default than the Times New Roman most browsers use out-of-the-box. Visitors who don't like the default can override it with via user stylesheets or browser preferences.
I propose we redesign Slashdot in HTML 3.2 - better yet, let's rewrite it for Gopher. At least I could view a Gopher page in my choice of font!
I propose you stop whining and RTFM on your browser; if you haven't taken the time to learn how to use that software, what makes you think you'll take the time to learn a Gopher client?