I can't believe that they could screw up interface so much. IE7 breaks Microsofts own GUI guidelines.
They apparently wanted to make it simple (only 2 buttons, like a browser for monkeys), but by making all toolbars upside down they've made it look more confusing and chaotic than Netscape 8.
Wrong. First check for "KHTML" (Konqueror, Safari), then for "Opera", then "Gecko", then "MSIE", and eventually "Mozilla".
Safari pretends to be Gecko, Opera pretends to be IE (optionally Gecko as well), and MSIE ofcourse pretends to be Mozilla, so order is important. Note that Opera may use slash after its name.
Are you sure these are correct? I know Opera has minor market share outside central Europe, but compared to huge "OTHER" in your stats it seems that you're not counting it properly.
I've tried switching to Dvorak layout. It worked really well with English, but I'm Polish and it turned out that QWERTY works better for Polish language.
BTW: Beware - Microsoft's "Dvorak" layout is not the real one. They have Z painfully misplaced.
I've got Windows Mobile 2003 phone (orange spv-c500). I'm sooo disappointed. This thing has poor performance and it's full of usability problems/annoyances. I'm not using any power features, because they're not worth time and effort it takes to access them.
If Apple is able to make powerful phone that has "it just works" user interface, I'll go for that.
There's commercial Photoshop vs free OS GIMP, commercial Windows vs free Linux, etc... and I don't see Adobe and MS going bankrupt. Being free is not the only feature of the browser, and Opera has some features that are worth paying for (or getting 250 referral clicks in Opera affiliate program).
Nokia sponsored Minimo, now they're getting KHTML "mobilised", but still Opera with their SSR is unbeaten on small screens. I guess it's just Nokias game to get lower prices from Opera.
I'd consider myself web developer and I don't see many problems with Opera's Javascript/DOM. Opera supports both IE-specific stuff and DOM1/DOM2. Only bits missing yet is DOM Stylesheets (but you can switch/alter stylesheets using other methods).
They find most active (interesting) sites and this might help them fight with spam and optimize ranking algorithm
Sites cheating by sending garbage to Google's IPs are going to send garbage to end-users now
Some files fetched for proxy may be fed to GoogleBot as well (fresh results)
It's useless for users becase:
Transfer between User<->Google<->Site may not be faster than User<->Site except few pages that are anonymous and already cached by Google (and public cache only works for sites with no cookies, no browser sniffing, no no-cache headers)
Non-IE browsers have pretty good HTTP/1.1 implementations (with pipelining) and there isn't much to improve here
Browsers limit number of concurrent connections to proxy and this might throttle speed in some cases
Only geekiest sites use <link rel="next/prefetch">
If they mess CSS2 like they messed CSS1 I'm not going to support IE on my websites anymore. I don't care about the market share. I'm going to be insane one way or another...
IE lusers of my websites are going to see list of links where they can get "upgrade", just like IE-only sites did for years.
IDN problem solved by Opera, as promised
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Actually the IDN problem is solved.
Check latest Opera - first of all it allows only IDN on domains where registrars don't allow mixed scripts. Then it allows only character combinations regarded as "safe". Obviously these checks aren't 100% bulletproof, so additionally on secure sites name of the certificate owner is displayed next to site address and all that makes life much much harder for phishers.
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Opera is very close to passing Acid2 test.
Who can point me to a good search engine? (good in both "no crappy results" and "no evil patents" sense)
iCab3 beta for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9(!) passes Acid2 test and is freely available for download.
I can't believe that they could screw up interface so much. IE7 breaks Microsofts own GUI guidelines.
They apparently wanted to make it simple (only 2 buttons, like a browser for monkeys), but by making all toolbars upside down they've made it look more confusing and chaotic than Netscape 8.
So it's not Opera SSR then.
Opera User Javascript.
Wrong.
First check for "KHTML" (Konqueror, Safari), then for "Opera", then "Gecko", then "MSIE", and eventually "Mozilla".
Safari pretends to be Gecko, Opera pretends to be IE (optionally Gecko as well), and MSIE ofcourse pretends to be Mozilla, so order is important.
Note that Opera may use slash after its name.
Are you sure these are correct? I know Opera has minor market share outside central Europe, but compared to huge "OTHER" in your stats it seems that you're not counting it properly.
Q: What do you get when you break a cryptographic hashing algorithm?
A: An excellent compression algorithm.
Oh! I get it. When you get Explorer infected with a virus, DRM kicks in and prevents it from making unathorized copies. Smart!
They've been loading web pages to test *CPU* speed?
"MacIntel might have smaller lag sometimes". That's the result of this test.
And they praise Internet Explorer's speed. It must be that special Apple's "blazing Windows XP" version...
With bendable touchscreen you could make vdu and keyboard in one.
I've tried switching to Dvorak layout. It worked really well with English, but I'm Polish and it turned out that QWERTY works better for Polish language.
BTW: Beware - Microsoft's "Dvorak" layout is not the real one. They have Z painfully misplaced.
I've got Windows Mobile 2003 phone (orange spv-c500). I'm sooo disappointed. This thing has poor performance and it's full of usability problems/annoyances. I'm not using any power features, because they're not worth time and effort it takes to access them.
If Apple is able to make powerful phone that has "it just works" user interface, I'll go for that.
Some webmasters say "why should I fix my website for when it's 0.01% of visitors on my site!?".
Well, Einstein, how are you supposed to get more visitors if your site works/looks like crap in ?
There's commercial Photoshop vs free OS GIMP, commercial Windows vs free Linux, etc... and I don't see Adobe and MS going bankrupt. Being free is not the only feature of the browser, and Opera has some features that are worth paying for (or getting 250 referral clicks in Opera affiliate program).
Nokia sponsored Minimo, now they're getting KHTML "mobilised", but still Opera with their SSR is unbeaten on small screens.
I guess it's just Nokias game to get lower prices from Opera.
Opera 8 has MSDN listed in its new ua.ini and completly cloaks as IE to avoid being served crapHTML(tm). Still no sings of flaw in Opera 8.
Mozilla may publish patches quickly, but users just don't care to patch.
;) about 10% of Firefox users still have older, insecure versions.
In my logs (and netcraft may confirm that
If FF was as popular as IE is now, that would have been a lot of potential victims and great market for spyware.
I'd consider myself web developer and I don't see many problems with Opera's Javascript/DOM. Opera supports both IE-specific stuff and DOM1/DOM2. Only bits missing yet is DOM Stylesheets (but you can switch/alter stylesheets using other methods).
- They know which search results people follow
- They find most active (interesting) sites and this might help them fight with spam and optimize ranking algorithm
- Sites cheating by sending garbage to Google's IPs are going to send garbage to end-users now
- Some files fetched for proxy may be fed to GoogleBot as well (fresh results)
It's useless for users becase:<title// <p/This is valid HTML<>Try writing browser that supports this.</>
When you make strict browser you'll hear "IE displays that fine, but your %#@%# browser doesn't". That already happens with Firefox and Opera.
"Improving CSS support consistency" means that CSS in IE is going to be consistently broken.
If they mess CSS2 like they messed CSS1 I'm not going to support IE on my websites anymore. I don't care about the market share. I'm going to be insane one way or another... IE lusers of my websites are going to see list of links where they can get "upgrade", just like IE-only sites did for years.
Actually the IDN problem is solved.
Check latest Opera - first of all it allows only IDN on domains where registrars don't allow mixed scripts. Then it allows only character combinations regarded as "safe".
Obviously these checks aren't 100% bulletproof, so additionally on secure sites name of the certificate owner is displayed next to site address and all that makes life much much harder for phishers.