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Microsoft Is Planning To Renew IE Development
jm.one writes "In his weblog the Mozilla developer Gervase Markham (aka Gerv) points out that Microsoft is re-constituting the Windows IE team. You can save Mozillazine's bandwidth(they've been /.ed every day this week) by directly checking out this post at Dave Massy's WebLog at MSDN.
They even have set up an IE Feedback section in their channel9 wiki."
And people love Microsoft Office? Over the years I've had nothing but trouble from it. OpenOffice.org is truly a breath of fresh air. Honestly, I can't believe the amount of Microsoft astroturfing going on around here nowadays, and usually from Anonymous Cowards.
Stick Men
good development?
they're pushing it back because they have incompetant programmers and horrible management..
all microsoft has is tyranical business tactics that keep them in the lead..
MABASPLOOM!
Not only did I get the pages to validate. By using CSS, I was able to get rid of several images they had been using with their design. The overall size of a page, including graphics and CSS, now weighs in at about 35 kbytes. This is compared to around 120 kbytes with the proposed code.
Dude, what kind of network equipment are you using? pigeons? are you printing out IP packets on paper to have 'em typed over by a bunch of filipino's in the other faculty building?
Let's assume you're on a 10 MBit network. This gives you about 1220 KB/s. In two days work, 16 hours, you've managed to reduce the transfer time for one page from 1/10th of a second to 1/35th of a second. The time you've spent reworking that page means that after roughly 806 THOUSAND pages served, you'll have achieved a net reduction in time spent. That is, you'll have wasted two precious days of your life, while the network will have saved itself two worthless days of it's life. Congratulations.
God I hope you're not on a gigabyte ethernet.