What reason do you have to hate the rest of the world so much? If theres someone that can do your job better or cheaper, shouldn't he get it, regardless of what shithole country he is forced to live in?
MS didn't fail ACID3, they just blew off trying to pass it because they didn't care.
So if I blow of a college exam and only get 12% because I don't care, I didn't fail it? You're logic is amazing. Failing is still failing, whether you intend to do so or otherwise.
Maybe because they are different branches of development? I don't think it is uncommon for software developers to have to backport security fixes to non-development versions of their software.
Except... most people don't want cut and paste. They WANT iTunes to manage their music for them.
Most people want to be able to cut and past AND have any media player installed on their computer be able to manage their music for them, they just don't realize it because they are caught up in the iPod craze. It will happen eventually, and people will love it.
and whoever deals with the web interface gets licenses for virtualisation software and windows + kubuntu. This way, everything will be tested on Safarai, Firefox, Opera, IE, Konqueror and Chrome.
What is the difference between consolidating on Macs and consolidating on a single Linux distribution with a standard package base? It seems that everything you list as a reason to use Macs is available through Linux.
Whats the obsession with overloading old people with technology? How useful is a PDA/SmartPhone if you cannot read the screen? I'd wager that any 65 year old lady that truly needed a PDA or SmartPhone is probably innovative enough to be able to figure it out, regardless of which model or manufacturer you give her.
Dr. Miller's data reveal some yawning gaps in basic knowledge. American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.
You are correct to a degree. Every browser statistic is inaccurate. Its funny that you would cut off your quote at that point when the very next statement is:
Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over a five year period, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends.
Also quoted lower down in the page:
(The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures).
A statistic with FF at 45% doesn't really surprise me at all. Some countries in Europe have passed this number a while ago. Here's a quote from an article in April of this year (before FF3):
The three countries with the highest Firefox market share are Finland, Poland, and Slovenia, which all have between 43 and 46 percent. Notably, the study saw the average market share exceed 30 percent during weekends, likely because of people who are using Internet Explorer at work and Firefox at home, by choice.
It is unlikely for FF to have an overall controlling force in the market without major corporations and/or government entities switching to it and OEMs like Dell and HP offering their buyers browser choices out of the box.
FF is not gonna make most of the features you listed in-built for several reasons.
- Ads support a large portion of the internet. It would be in bad faith and could cause a downfall in the economic feasibility of many internet services. It could also make them liable for sites that are blacklisted for ads. Additionally, some people won't/don't want this. Blocking ads interferes with the display of some web sites, such as some network TV sites that will not show the content unless the ads can load.
- I have built-in support to open G-Mail on mailto: links, why on earth would I want a built in email program? Web-based/software programs do it better.
- BitTorrent. Seriously? The worst time to be downloading from BitTorrent is when I am trying to actively browse the web. FF already has a large enough RAM profile as it is.
- And so on... This concept of 'make it all built-in' leads to bloat and badly-maintained code. They went through the effort of making FF easily extensible through add-ons to avoid this problem in the first place.
I can't wait until Midori can remember open tabs and not crash constantly. I can't wait for a fast, lightweight, and cutting edge browser to be available for linux once again.
Sure, IE8 will help, but there is still the problem of penetration. IE7 was released over two years ago, and still has less than 30% penetration. IE6 is still being used by around one in five users, and it has outright horrifying CSS rendering. Unless there have been drastic changes since the release of IE7, this is what can be predicted for the next few years of browser usage:
- IE6 usage will continue to decrease at a rate of 1-2% per month, putting it between 5-8% by the end of next year.
- IE7 will continue to increase for 4-6 months until the release of IE8. At a rate of 0.5-1% per month, that would put it at about 30-31% when IE8 is released. IE8 release will cause of decrease in usage of 10-15% in the first two months, and 1-2% per month afterward. This will put IE7 at about 12-18% by the end of next year.
- IE8 will be released between April and July. It will immediately gain 10-15% in the first two month. Usage will then increase at a rate of 0.5-1% per month, mostly at the expense of IE7 usage.This will put IE8 at about 18-22% by the end of next year.
- FF will continue to grow steadily at a rate of 0.75% per month. FF will be around 55% by the end of next year. Chrome poses the biggest threat to FF growth should a final version be released in the next year. This could affect from 2-10% of FF usage stats, depending on Google marketing and 'geek cred'.
- Safari growth will continue at 0.1%/month, leading it to 4-4.5% by the end of next year.
- Opera growth will continue around 0.1%/month, leading it to 3.3-3.5% at the end of next year.
- Chrome will remain around 2.5-4% until a release or increased advertising causes it to gain visibility, after which growth is unpredictable.
Why should corporate customers have to call up Microsoft every time they fuck up Genuine Advantage? Activation/IP protection schemes are hugely hated for the very reason that they don't bother the pirates but they do hassle the paying customers. Its great that you have time to play around on your pirated laptop copy, but come back when you have a bottom line to worry about.
Obviously I cannot refute your personal experience beyond doubt. I do believe that it is unlikely that you would distinctly remember of your browser crashes once or twice over a year ago. The number of results also show nothing except that people are experiencing crashes in major browsers in recent years. The bottom line is that in the last couple of years all major browsers have experienced the following bugs in release versions of their software:
- Crashes that occur randomly, or when a particular sequence of steps is followed.
- Crashes caused by visiting malicious web pages.
- Crashes caused due to incompatibility with 3rd party software, add-ons, plug-ins, extensions, or themes.
It's outstanding that you are not experiencing browser crashes, but that is not evidence of an absence of them.
With the download count for Firefox being over 710 Million, I think its a bit naive to say that ads are "being blocked in pretty much every FF out there." Adblock plus currently has 29 Million downloads.
Seeing as the swf format can be completely decompiled by current software on the market, I find it hard to believe that open sourcing the client would have any significant effect on development tools. It probably has more to do with proprietary/messy code, time, liability and other factors that weigh in on a cost/benefit analysis.
According to this article, and several other things I've read, IE8 will not include support for SVG. If it is supported by IE9, we are looking at a minimum of 2-3 years before it is available on all major browsers. Add another year for browser penetration. Unless SVG is added as an update to IE8, it will not be a viable solution for web-based vector graphics in the near future. Fortunately, vector design programs like Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape support SVG rather well, so its not likely to disappear in oblivion before being widely implemented.
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What reason do you have to hate the rest of the world so much? If theres someone that can do your job better or cheaper, shouldn't he get it, regardless of what shithole country he is forced to live in?
MS didn't fail ACID3, they just blew off trying to pass it because they didn't care.
So if I blow of a college exam and only get 12% because I don't care, I didn't fail it? You're logic is amazing. Failing is still failing, whether you intend to do so or otherwise.
Maybe because they are different branches of development? I don't think it is uncommon for software developers to have to backport security fixes to non-development versions of their software.
Except... most people don't want cut and paste. They WANT iTunes to manage their music for them.
Most people want to be able to cut and past AND have any media player installed on their computer be able to manage their music for them, they just don't realize it because they are caught up in the iPod craze. It will happen eventually, and people will love it.
and whoever deals with the web interface gets licenses for virtualisation software and windows + kubuntu. This way, everything will be tested on Safarai, Firefox, Opera, IE, Konqueror and Chrome.
Not only can you run Safari in the virtualised windows installation (which you might use for IE and chrome anyway), but you can run Safari with Wine. So yes, can run Safari. I'm not aware of any rendering differences between the Mac and Windows versions.
What is the difference between consolidating on Macs and consolidating on a single Linux distribution with a standard package base? It seems that everything you list as a reason to use Macs is available through Linux.
Whats the obsession with overloading old people with technology? How useful is a PDA/SmartPhone if you cannot read the screen? I'd wager that any 65 year old lady that truly needed a PDA or SmartPhone is probably innovative enough to be able to figure it out, regardless of which model or manufacturer you give her.
The iPod has forced every other mp3 player maker out of business!
Yeah, all the other makers except for Microsoft, Sony, Creative, SanDisk, iRiver, Archos, Toshiba, and a dozen generic Asian manufacturers...
Google is such a terrible company. They go around pretending to be the good guys by helping open source projects, promoting an open-source browser, developing an open source browser and supporting webkit, pushing standardization and inter-communication between chat clients. pushing for the use of free (as in beer) software. It clearly won't be long before we were wishing Microsoft was back and those rat-bastards at Google had never touched the web!
Dr. Miller's data reveal some yawning gaps in basic knowledge. American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.
Oh, look. Chrome is out of Beta:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-chrome-beta.html
Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over a five year period, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends.
Also quoted lower down in the page:
(The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures).
A statistic with FF at 45% doesn't really surprise me at all. Some countries in Europe have passed this number a while ago. Here's a quote from an article in April of this year (before FF3):
The three countries with the highest Firefox market share are Finland, Poland, and Slovenia, which all have between 43 and 46 percent. Notably, the study saw the average market share exceed 30 percent during weekends, likely because of people who are using Internet Explorer at work and Firefox at home, by choice.
It is unlikely for FF to have an overall controlling force in the market without major corporations and/or government entities switching to it and OEMs like Dell and HP offering their buyers browser choices out of the box.
FF is not gonna make most of the features you listed in-built for several reasons.
- Ads support a large portion of the internet. It would be in bad faith and could cause a downfall in the economic feasibility of many internet services. It could also make them liable for sites that are blacklisted for ads. Additionally, some people won't/don't want this. Blocking ads interferes with the display of some web sites, such as some network TV sites that will not show the content unless the ads can load.
- I have built-in support to open G-Mail on mailto: links, why on earth would I want a built in email program? Web-based/software programs do it better.
- BitTorrent. Seriously? The worst time to be downloading from BitTorrent is when I am trying to actively browse the web. FF already has a large enough RAM profile as it is.
- And so on... This concept of 'make it all built-in' leads to bloat and badly-maintained code. They went through the effort of making FF easily extensible through add-ons to avoid this problem in the first place.
I can't wait until Midori can remember open tabs and not crash constantly. I can't wait for a fast, lightweight, and cutting edge browser to be available for linux once again.
Sure, IE8 will help, but there is still the problem of penetration. IE7 was released over two years ago, and still has less than 30% penetration. IE6 is still being used by around one in five users, and it has outright horrifying CSS rendering. Unless there have been drastic changes since the release of IE7, this is what can be predicted for the next few years of browser usage:
- IE6 usage will continue to decrease at a rate of 1-2% per month, putting it between 5-8% by the end of next year.
- IE7 will continue to increase for 4-6 months until the release of IE8. At a rate of 0.5-1% per month, that would put it at about 30-31% when IE8 is released. IE8 release will cause of decrease in usage of 10-15% in the first two months, and 1-2% per month afterward. This will put IE7 at about 12-18% by the end of next year.
- IE8 will be released between April and July. It will immediately gain 10-15% in the first two month. Usage will then increase at a rate of 0.5-1% per month, mostly at the expense of IE7 usage.This will put IE8 at about 18-22% by the end of next year.
- FF will continue to grow steadily at a rate of 0.75% per month. FF will be around 55% by the end of next year. Chrome poses the biggest threat to FF growth should a final version be released in the next year. This could affect from 2-10% of FF usage stats, depending on Google marketing and 'geek cred'.
- Safari growth will continue at 0.1%/month, leading it to 4-4.5% by the end of next year.
- Opera growth will continue around 0.1%/month, leading it to 3.3-3.5% at the end of next year.
- Chrome will remain around 2.5-4% until a release or increased advertising causes it to gain visibility, after which growth is unpredictable.
Why should corporate customers have to call up Microsoft every time they fuck up Genuine Advantage? Activation/IP protection schemes are hugely hated for the very reason that they don't bother the pirates but they do hassle the paying customers. Its great that you have time to play around on your pirated laptop copy, but come back when you have a bottom line to worry about.
Obviously I cannot refute your personal experience beyond doubt. I do believe that it is unlikely that you would distinctly remember of your browser crashes once or twice over a year ago. The number of results also show nothing except that people are experiencing crashes in major browsers in recent years. The bottom line is that in the last couple of years all major browsers have experienced the following bugs in release versions of their software:
- Crashes that occur randomly, or when a particular sequence of steps is followed.
- Crashes caused by visiting malicious web pages.
- Crashes caused due to incompatibility with 3rd party software, add-ons, plug-ins, extensions, or themes.
It's outstanding that you are not experiencing browser crashes, but that is not evidence of an absence of them.
With the download count for Firefox being over 710 Million, I think its a bit naive to say that ads are "being blocked in pretty much every FF out there." Adblock plus currently has 29 Million downloads.
Or they are the average internet user that checks their Yahoo mail and Myspace.
Hmmm...
IE crashes - 1,380,000 Results.
Firefox crashes - 630,000 Results.
Safari crashes - 1,110,000 Results.
What planet are you living on?
Neither is WebKit, which Chrome uses to render pages.
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That's a point... but then it might just speed the adoption of Firefox on Windows.
I can only hope so!
I doubt the OS developers will 'release' it for public scrutiny. This is likely to be a costly solution sold to high bidders.
Seeing as the swf format can be completely decompiled by current software on the market, I find it hard to believe that open sourcing the client would have any significant effect on development tools. It probably has more to do with proprietary/messy code, time, liability and other factors that weigh in on a cost/benefit analysis.
According to this article, and several other things I've read, IE8 will not include support for SVG. If it is supported by IE9, we are looking at a minimum of 2-3 years before it is available on all major browsers. Add another year for browser penetration. Unless SVG is added as an update to IE8, it will not be a viable solution for web-based vector graphics in the near future. Fortunately, vector design programs like Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape support SVG rather well, so its not likely to disappear in oblivion before being widely implemented.