Ionut Staicu - Webdeveloper Blog » Debates http://dev.iamntz.com Stuff about CSS, XHTML, Javascript and jQuery Thu, 26 May 2011 05:43:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Microsoft is a funny company! http://dev.iamntz.com/217/microsoft-its-a-funny-company http://dev.iamntz.com/217/microsoft-its-a-funny-company#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:57:07 +0000 Staicu IonuÈ›-Bogdan http://dev.iamntz.com/?p=217 Continue reading →]]> Microsoft recently published a comparision table for three big (?!) browsers: IE8, Firefox and Chrome. Here is the table (i made a screenshot in case they change their minds):

Microsoft Browsers

After you stop laughing, let’s take it step by step. So:

  1. Security. Ok, maybe I lied when I said we will take it step by step. I don’t worry about security because I don’t visit obscure sites (too often). However, in last three or four years of using Firefox I had NO PROBLEMS with security. Ok, if an obscure site will ASK you to install a toolbar and you will install it… That’s not poor security. That’s great stupidity!
  2. Privacy. I will skip this step too because I’m the only one who use my PC. Besides that I don’t login on other machines. However, Chrome have a “stealth mode” and Firefox permits you to clear all private data (just hit CTRL+SHIFT+DEL).
  3. Ease of use. I’m not the right person to judge about this, so I won’t.
  4. Web Standards. ACID test: Firefox 72/100 and IE8 12/100. I don’t even start Chrome.
  5. Developer Tools. Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you kidding me? The “web developer” is a joke if you compare with firebug. You only can set breakpoints with debugger but you can’t see values on that breakpoint! How stupid is that? Also, if you want to debug a page you need to… (guess!) RELOAD the page! Dumb asses! And for network monitoring what do you have? Nothing? Oh, that’s a bummer.
  6. Reliability. Indeed, this is a problem on Firefox. But not on Chrome too (Chrome will open a new process for each tab).
  7. Customizability. Riiiight. Please show me some IE8 themes!
  8. Manageability. I’m not in a company, i don’t care.
  9. Performance. It’s a tie, they admit it.

      10. I wonder why they didn’t include Safari and Opera in that chart…

      ]]> http://dev.iamntz.com/217/microsoft-its-a-funny-company/feed 9 Do you still offer support for IE6? http://dev.iamntz.com/212/do-you-still-offer-support-for-ie6 http://dev.iamntz.com/212/do-you-still-offer-support-for-ie6#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:48:03 +0000 Staicu IonuÈ›-Bogdan http://dev.iamntz.com/?p=212 Continue reading →]]> If the answer is “yes”, may I know… WHY? I mean c’mon, we have now three versions of IE, one of them is almost 10 years old (yeah, i know, 8 is more exact number) and is filled with bugs and flaws. You don’t have advanced selectors, you don’t have png support (actually you have, but is very rudimentary), javascript is slower and so on.

      Maybe you’ll say that IE6 is still used by aprox 15% of users. That is correct, but think at this aspect: an average user has no idea how awful his browser is. Because we – the front end developers – we struggle to make site 100% compatible with IE6. Ok, no user will upgrade their browser for *your* site, right? Partially correct. Let me show you why: If the user can’t use your site, i’m 99% sure that he will *not* update his browser and will leave. Unless will find several sites that won’t work on his “great” browser, right?

      To demonstrate the user ignorance (ignorance is bliss, right?), take a look at what average user answer on a very simple question: “what is a browser?”

      I personally offer IE6 support only for some extra cash (+25%). Some clients are OK, some are not.

      So.. Do you still support IE6?

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