RE: News Flash: Web-browsers and web-surfing is dead...
It tells me that Firefox 2 can handle HTML 4.01.
View ArticleRE[3]: News Flash: Web-browsers and web-surfing is dea
That says nothing about how much people are browsing the web. Video takes a lot more bandwidth than browsing. The bigger picture is that people are using the internet more for video instead of cable...
View ArticleRE: Ow!
Please, see my comment () where I give my point of view about this. I don't think we should mangle the news item. I don't think Thom having posted a user submission is wrong or that the member who...
View ArticleRE: Hello OSnew!!
Err, no. OSNews doesn't have any responsibility in "checking" whatever is submitted. We, the readers, are educated enough to spread some knowledge and enlighten each other. To the point that your own...
View ArticleRE: Comment by kaiwai
But that's Microsoft's "standards" MO. They read the raw standard and implement it "to the letter". But they go out of their way to play games with things like "may" versus "shall" getting all rules...
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Actually, the reason it is getting torn apart is because it appears everyone here thinks they know what they are talking about, even though they dont. MS said that IE8 would not try to implement...
View ArticleRE[2]: End of days
The way the w3c works is that the criteria to go from "working draft" to "recommendation" is two 100% implementations. The way that most browsers work is they implement emerging standards as...
View ArticleRE[2]: News Flash: Web-browsers and web-surfing is dea
> Not sure I understand your point. That current websites> work on very legacy software ? Yes, that's correct. Websites like youtube that look at your user-agent and throw up bogus messages about...
View ArticleRE: Asinine.
Gecko and WebKit support many CSS3 properties, just not all of them. Every browser supports standards to a varying degree - point me to one that supports HTML 3.2 in full.
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Not sure I understand your point. That current websites work on very legacy software ?
View ArticleNews Flash: Web-browsers and web-surfing is dead...
Web surfing is a declining activity and web-browsers are going to be relegated to the scrap heap in a few years. I'm reading this article on a P4 machine with 512 mb ram running Windows 98se enhanced...
View ArticleRE[2]: End of days
Using vendor prefixes. It won't be quite so bad this time around. HTML5 is a different matter altogether. The IE team's tune has definitely changed. I think it's Apple we should be worrying about....
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Sorry, Thom, but I think you did a mistake posting some FUD about Microsoft made up by some moron who knows exactly what he is doing. That moron has made on pourpose a page which can only work with...
View ArticleRE[2]: End of days
Oh, but IE6 was probably quite good on its days (although it lacked tabs). The problem is that after that, there was no release or update of IE for ages. Competition has moved on, and it took a lot of...
View Articlei'm confused
I tried the test page in chrome and it doesn't actually work. Sure, the index renders correctly, but the page flips don't work. I think the webkit specific properties are what are doing the page flips....
View ArticleRE: ding Ding DING
I have a similar score on the bugs I used to report for all Microsoft Products. The only ones that actually got fixed (two) had to deal with Data Corruption in 1) Excel cells in a column were...
View ArticleRE: End of days
Feels strange, does it not? It's very easy nowadays to sit around bashing IE, especially IE6. Take that "IE 6 funeral" nonsense of just a few months back... Fact is, it's aged like milk and M$...
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