The Firefox marketshare is also because of Google. Before developing Chrome, Google promoted Firefox heavily.
And Google have billions in revenue too.
That said, I think Google jumped the shark with Chrome. If the same company controls both the biggest search engine and the browser, they will be unstoppable and therefore very dangerous. That's the only reason I don't like Chrome.
If e-mail is so perfect, then why is everybody thrilled by something like Google Wave?
Remember: in Korea only old people use e-mail!
Now a bit serious: I really see Google Wave having replaced both e-mail and facebook-like communication in a couple of years. That, or a clone of Google Wave by somebody, but the ideas behind it are amazing. The reason is convenience and user friendliness.
The fact is that for informal communication, a lot of alternatives are more convenient than using e-mail.
This is not similar to Google Wave. Google Wave is a messaging server with a Web client. And amazingly smart agents. Google Wave also has a very defined protocol so that two Google Wave servers can communicate.
Opera Unite is a home Web server development platform that uses XML and JS. It actually uses the sandbox model of the widgets, in fact it leverages the entire widgets infrastructure.
Some of the ideas on Google Wave can be copied, and a Google Wave client in Opera Unite is still a posibility. It also would be awesome in uncountable amounts.
I also agree with the fact that file sharing using Opera Unite is very kewl and practically untraceable.
I know that benchmark. That's just a JS benchmark.
Opera is not the fastest in JS anymore. It hasn't been in a long time.
But in everything else, Opera 10 Beta wins hands down. Pages render almost instantaneously, having 60+ tabs is as fast as having just three, and the JS is incredibly faster than in IE, just not as fast as the new Webkit versions.
Nevermind that Safari cheats in the JS benchmarks.
If using a local domain were as easy as using a.com domain everybody would have local domains.
And of course, no one would care about who controls the root DNS servers.
But they are more expensive, more cumbersome, and give us little benefit.
What the article argues is that this cumbersome and bureaucratic entities should not control the main DNS servers and make it expensive and cumbersome, and I agree with the article, because of this.
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For ASP saying that would be idiotic.
But how many ASP.NET developers add a BrowserCaps section to their web.config files?
I would guess that almost no one does. After all they are developing in .NET
The Firefox marketshare is also because of Google. Before developing Chrome, Google promoted Firefox heavily.
And Google have billions in revenue too.
That said, I think Google jumped the shark with Chrome. If the same company controls both the biggest search engine and the browser, they will be unstoppable and therefore very dangerous. That's the only reason I don't like Chrome.
Have you tried Opera 10 Beta?
Don't assume that because you have a very short span attention then other people is the same.
I actually use some pages as a reference for weeks, and I think my normal usage is about 50 tabs open (but I don't use FF).
This is a benchmark of unreleased versions of those browsers.
Probaby they did a lot of fixing in FF 3.5 compared with FF 3.0
I also think Firefox is a memory hog and I use Opera, but it doesn't mean that the software can't evolve.
Increase the number of connections in Windows XP post SP2.
If e-mail is so perfect, then why is everybody thrilled by something like Google Wave?
Remember: in Korea only old people use e-mail!
Now a bit serious: I really see Google Wave having replaced both e-mail and facebook-like communication in a couple of years. That, or a clone of Google Wave by somebody, but the ideas behind it are amazing. The reason is convenience and user friendliness.
The fact is that for informal communication, a lot of alternatives are more convenient than using e-mail.
Enterprises are using IE6 anyway.
Yeah!
I expected Opera guys doing a live webcast video too!
This is not similar to Google Wave. Google Wave is a messaging server with a Web client. And amazingly smart agents.
Google Wave also has a very defined protocol so that two Google Wave servers can communicate.
Opera Unite is a home Web server development platform that uses XML and JS. It actually uses the sandbox model of the widgets, in fact it leverages the entire widgets infrastructure.
Some of the ideas on Google Wave can be copied, and a Google Wave client in Opera Unite is still a posibility. It also would be awesome in uncountable amounts.
I also agree with the fact that file sharing using Opera Unite is very kewl and practically untraceable.
I know that benchmark. That's just a JS benchmark.
Opera is not the fastest in JS anymore. It hasn't been in a long time.
But in everything else, Opera 10 Beta wins hands down. Pages render almost instantaneously, having 60+ tabs is as fast as having just three, and the JS is incredibly faster than in IE, just not as fast as the new Webkit versions.
Nevermind that Safari cheats in the JS benchmarks.
And that's the reason our bosses are marketing guys.
You can build the best product ever, feature wise, but no one will use it because the default skin doesn't look like what they had in mind.
I hate that default skin too. But I have never used it, and I only use Opera.
It doesn't look like that to me. At all.
Even if logged out.
I mean seriously did we lean nothing with Windows 200o default install of IIS.
Yes, the server and all services are disabled by default.
I think they will find out about Opera real soon.
At least my mother really likes the idea.
But it's so easy to add a little javascript to make the page auto scroll.
It could even remember the last seen message and scroll to the first unseen message.
And Mobile Windows and netbooks is precisely where Android plans to compete.
Total computers in use are about 1.3 billion right now, and it is a saturated market.
Total cell phones in use are about 4.2 Billion and still growing in most markets worldwide.
In ten years probably every single cell phone will be what we now call a smartphone.
These numbers is what Google really cares about.
For (almost all) native English speakers, "google" also meant nothing.
That's the good thing about that name.
If using a local domain were as easy as using a .com domain everybody would have local domains.
And of course, no one would care about who controls the root DNS servers.
But they are more expensive, more cumbersome, and give us little benefit.
What the article argues is that this cumbersome and bureaucratic entities should not control the main DNS servers and make it expensive and cumbersome, and I agree with the article, because of this.
Just FYI, I hate both GCC and VC in Windows.
My current favourite compiler is DMars, and I think that in Windows GCC can't really touch it, by an order of magnitude.
YMMV.
I'm with you on that.
And by that I mean, I was bashed too, since long ago.
Even today I see Linux distros as too commercial-software hostile.
However, I believe that Linux distros will change, because by now it is evident for everyone that real standardization is long overdue and necessary.
Well, we can try to bankrupt the corporations that still use IE6...
And I'm including IE6 in my definition of modern.
I think you are stretching your point way too far.
I do. I totally prefer that and have even read full length books in both my computer and cell phone in this way.
However, there's a school of 'design' for lazy readers that treat everything I like as 'the ugly wall of text'.
Anywhere I find a long text the wall-of-text comment appears, no matter how well the paragraphs are formatted.
So in this case it seems you really can't please everybody.
That's why I use wxWidgets when I use C++.