Archive for September, 2006
Golden Gate
Friday, September 15th, 2006
Some pictures from San Francisco:
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London calling…
Friday, September 15th, 2006
The first thing I saw when I’ve entered Heathrow airport was this huge sign:
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| From 2006, USA Trip |
It says in Russian: “Welcome to London”. Such a nice support!
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Rendering performance test results
Friday, September 8th, 2006
Test:
Browsers and platform:
- Same as in JavaScript performance test results
Results:
- Swift 0.1 - about 3 seconds
- Opera 9 - about 3.3 seconds
- FF 2.0 Beta 2 - about 4.7 seconds
- Flock 0.7 - about 5 seconds
- FF 3.0 - about 5.2 seconds
- MS IE 7 - about 5.8 seconds
Resume:
- Swift 0.1 is a winner.
- MS IE 7 is a looser.
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YouOS - yet another WEB 2.0 toy
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Try another WEB 2.0 toy: YouOS.
It’s a complete OS inside a browser window!
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Writely
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Try WEB 2.0 editor!
Why?
- It’s cool!
- It’s free.
- It’s possible to post to your own blog from it.
Get it here: Writely
This blog post was made from Writely and later corrected with MS Windows Live Writer.
P.S. I will not recommend it for everyday use. It has lots of problems and it’s still beta quality.
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JavaScript performance test results
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Platform:
- Hardware: IBM ThinkPad T41, Intel Pentium M 1.59 GHz, 512M of RAM
- OS: MS Windows XP SP2
Test:
Browsers:
- MS Internet Explorer 7, RC, version 7.0.5700.6
- Firefox-Minefield, version 3.0a1, Mozilla 1.9a1, Gecko/2006090404
- Flock, version 0.7.4.1, Mozilla 1.8.0.5, Gecko/20060731, Firefox/1.5.0.5
- Opera 9.01
- Swift 0.1, WebKit for WIN32
Results:
- Opera 9 - 668ms
- Swift 0.1 - 781ms
- MS IE 7 - 958ms
- FF 3.0 - 1386ms
- Flock 0.7 - 2379ms
- Tests were made several times for every browser but the average result is about the one above.
Resume:
- Opera 9 is a winner.
- Mozilla 1.8-1.9 is a looser.
Browser notes:
- Flock browser is based on Firefox, that based on Mozilla.
- Every Mozilla based browser info contains also correspondent Mozilla and Gecko versions.
- Swift is a first WebKit based browser for MS Windows.
Update 2006.09.05 16:27:
I’ve made a bug report for Mozilla regarding this issue: Bug # 351406
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JavaScript and browsers
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
One guy made JavaScript speed comparison between Firefox, IE and Opera: JavaScript Speed Tests.
Results are such: Firefox, IE - suxx, Opera - rulez.
There is another comparison regarding standards support: Link #1, Link #2 and Link #3.
Nevertheless, when it comes to AJAX support the result could be opposite. Check Netvibes with the browser of Your choice.
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marketing new technology
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
On essence of the new technology marketing is, certainly, a logo.
I’ve recently discovered that these two recent buzzwords, WEB 2.0 and AJAX, have own logos already.
from AJAX.org
from Wiki
Enjoy!
BTW, curious what is WEB 3.0? It’s Semantic Web!
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Over complicated browsing
Friday, September 1st, 2006
There is one Firefox extension that can convert it into a “semantic web browser”: Piggy Bank.
It’s about 5.5 MB and also requires Java. It provides another “view” to a web page by gathering some statistics and reformatting the page layout accordingly.
Didn’t quite get what is a purpose of all this “enhancements” but, nevertheless, I’m sure it’s a trend.
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