Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I didn't see a compelling reason to switch to Opera when I tried it, so in the interest of fair and balanced coverage, here are 10 reasons why you should use the Opera browser, according to one commentator.
Interview with Aza Raskin (Mozilla's head of user experience) about the future of ...
Tags: bits and bobs, chrome, firefox, gears, ie, microsoft, opera, safari, ubiquity | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Yep, it's Chrome week and I'm just going to blather on about it through Friday. Today we have a piece by the one-and-only Robert X. Cringely speculating on why Google decided to make Chrome in the first place. (Actually the post is four days old, but I'm perennially behind in ...
Tags: chrome, cringely, google, ie, microsoft | 13 Comments »
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
September is here, and I'm slipping out of a mild off-season hibernation after a relatively laidback summer ("relative" being the operative word when you're coming off ten years of stressful startup life). In particular, this blog has been sorely neglected. I'm planning to ramp things up once again, and what ...
Tags: chrome, firefox, google, ie, javascript, mozilla, ssb | 7 Comments »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Biologists talk about a phenomenon called the evolutionary arms race. Cheetahs, for example, only survived if they were fast enough to catch the slowest gazelles. Gazelles, on the other hand, only lived to produce offspring if they could outrun the fastest predators. These are powerful evolutionary forces, and as a ...
Tags: firefox, ie, mozilla, performance, safari, tamarin, webkit | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In response to widespread outrage at their decision to make the Internet Explorer 8 handle web pages by default in the same broken way as IE7, Microsoft has now announced that they have seen the light:
Our initial thinking for IE8 involved showing pages requesting “Standards” mode in an IE7’s “Standards” ...
Tags: ie, microsoft, standards | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie continues to promote and defend his company's legal action against Microsoft for anti-competitive practices with a guest editorial in The Register. One thing seems incontrovertible: Microsoft should not be allowed to tie Internet Explorer to Windows and strong-arm hardware manufacturers into refusing bundling deals with ...
Tags: firefox, ie, microsoft, opera, rants, standards | 7 Comments »
Friday, February 1st, 2008
A tad less than a year ago Dell launched a forward-thinking customer feedback website called IdeaStorm, modeled on social news sites like Digg. The site appears to be a thunderous success (as its name would suggest), and one of the most popular requests, shipping machines with Linux preinstalled, has already ...
Tags: dell, firefox, ie, microsoft | 13 Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Last month, Microsoft announced to general astonishment that the upcoming release of Internet Explorer will pass the Acid2 test of standards compliance. They even went as far as to publish a video containing interviews with leading members of the IE team and a fascinating inside look at their Acid2 quest. ...
Tags: acid2, ie, microsoft, opera | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Most people seem to labor under the misconception that web standardization is a well-regimented, orderly process with a clear set of rules. In particular, the uninitiated believe that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the anointed standards body for the web. Vendors get together, agree on some new markup ...
Tags: acid2, ie, microsoft, rants, standards, w3c, whatwg | 8 Comments »