The Other Side of The Stone
As I sit here this morning and catch up with the important news I find myself plastered with Obama/Clinton news. It is annoying at one point and humorous at another. I might write something about that later.
This mornings Other Side of The Stone we will look at two bits of info that stood out in my eyes.
First we have another show of too much free time, while I cannot complain because I would love to do something similar. Viewable here. With all that time you’d think that they would have fully functional giant transforming robots ready to combat those giant creatures that for years ravaged their cities. Inaccuracies at this point are all irrelevant.
Secondly, we have a great review of web browsers from PC World. Viewable Here. They touch on each of the main browsers, major and minor which really is just IE, FireFox, Safari, Opera and Flock. As a wise person said years ago, “Begun, the Browser Wars have.” At this stage I think that we have the final battle about to begin. Safari has the jump start with 3.1 and its Apple motto of clean cut software with metallic colors/surfaces and user-friendliness. Firefox will come out of the gates swinging when it officially releases 3. I am running the Beta 5 and I love it. IE8 will be that last to show its face in the war but may win because the others will be too tired to fight. Or the other might just ignore it till it goes away dejected. I tried out the first beta of IE 8 some time ago and I was immediately saddened when I saw something along the lines of Facebook integration. Some sort of live RSS feed for your Facebook account. That alone, for me at least, warranted an uninstall and permanent ignoring.
One browser that kind of fell of the grid, or out of the tubes, is Avant. I used it religiously for several years starting back in ‘02 until about ‘05 or ‘06. Then I went to IE7 when that was released and starting several months ago, about the time Firefox 3 Beta 3/4 was released I moved to that. For me when I started it was something that was far better than IE and if I looked into it I would probably say the same thing now. IE has always had small issues that never seemed to get resolved. The inability to play quicktime videos. No matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t get them to work.
Anyway, thats all for this mornings news update. If you ever find something you liked or a opinion you or someone you know could relate to, invite them to stop by.
I think that you overestimate the reach safari has. The market is far to small for it and it doesn’t have the initial base of IE or Firefox. Since Macs only have a 10% market share and until last year Safari wasn’t available to PC users, Firefox gained quite an edge and, in my mind, has become the most formidable foe for IE.
[...] The slightest hint of some sort of Facebook integration in IE8 sent one user running for the hills. [...]
IE8 Coverage, Two Months Later said this on May 11, 2008 at 9:20 pm |