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Opera Sees "Dramatic" Rise From Microsoft's Ballot
TheReal_sabret00the notes a TechRadar piece reporting that Opera Software has seen a doubling from normal download numbers on average since Microsoft's browser-choice screen lit up in Europe. The UK saw an 85% increase and for other countries it was larger still: Poland 328%, Spain 215%, and Italy 202%. Hakon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera Software, said "A multitude of browsers will make the web more standardised and easier to browse."
Goes to show that Microsoft IE has a large market share not because it is a great product, but because it locking competitors out.
Yes, now Opera has grand total of around 400 or 500 users total, as opposed to the 6 people who actually used it before MS was forced to advertise them.
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Wow, you're exactly the kind of full-of-yourself holier-than-thou douchebag web developer I'm talking about. Thanks for the vivid example to back me up.
Dude, you're an asshole, you're producing buggy code that, like it or not, you'll have to eventually fix, and you're pissing off all your users and many of your co-workers. Get the fuck over yourself, using IE isn't like having bowel cancer, it's just another piece of software.
The IE related tools are inferior,
Visual Studio is a hundred times better than Firebug for debugging Javascript. (And even the free Express versions can be used in this way, so no need to buy anything.)
I will say that Firebug is better for diving down into the DOM and tweaking stuff, though. (Although I haven't much experience on the built-in DOM inspector on IE8... can anybody speak to how well it works?)
the browser itself is inferior
Really? Because it's got process separation, which is more than Firefox has going for it. And when IE9 comes out, its JS performance will be on-par with Firefox too... so there's two major areas where IE is demonstrably *not* inferior.
If more developers ignored IE, fewer users would consider it the one and only browser.
No they wouldn't, they'd just leave your website and go elsewhere. And given your attitude, I'd say you deserve to lose the business.
Comment of the year
A patent attorney says that Computer Software is Not Math. Fuck you, too.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
You are pulling shit out of your ass and saying "this is the way I want the world to be". Unfortunetly for you, this isn't the way the world is. If you are having a hard time finding sources discussing why patenting ideas is wrong, then maybe it is because everybody but you understands why it is retarded.
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You got me. Sue the USPTO and present Alan Turing as your star witness in the trial. Double dumbass on you!
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
I'm explaining the distinctions that exist between copyrights and patents. You copyright a specific work. You patent a certain kind of idea called an invention. It's pretty clear to me what the distinction is between what can be patented and what can be copyrighted.
I found many arguments against software patents in Wikipedia, and interestingly, there is almost no overlap between the discussion in these Slashdot posts and the discussion in that article. The reasons for not allowing software patents given here are idiotic. The reasons given in the Wikipedia article are much more reasonable.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.