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In a blog post by Internet Explorer team, the launch of Internet Explorer 8 was delayed until sometime next year. The final release candidate is due for Q1 of 2009.
The IE team cites concerns over some bugs that couldn't be resolve soon, as the initial target for the release was before 2009.
Internet Explorer 8 in it's latest beta, was still dead last in terms of standards compliance, JavaScript, DOM and HTML performance.
A quick way of measuring JavaScript is running this test
http://nontroppo.org/timer/progressive_raytracer.html
on my box I got:
Opera 9.60 Finished in: 25.782 second
CrossOver Chromium Finished in: 21.186 seconds
Konqueror 4.1.2 Finished in: 21.639 second
I couldn't get Firefox 3.0.4 to run the test without hanging.
I'm on GNU/Linux so I don't have the latest version of Internet Explorer to test it, but on my father's laptop, IE7 took 2x the time as Google Chrome. People running Windows can verify this.
I've been using KTorrent as my Bittorrent client for over a year now, but lately I've been having some serious memory issues with KTorrent, if I leave running overnight it clogs up the main memory and even swap space, on average 33% of my RAM is consumed by KTorrent, this is not normal at all, not even Azureus was this memory hog. Apparently, there is fix, I've been running 3.1.2 recently and later releases have this issue fixed, too bad for me I couldn't find a package for my distribution.
While searching for something else, I came across Deluge, and my oh my! it features everything I need, not to the extent of Azureus or KTorrent, but not spartan either. Best of all it is truly lightweight, it consume way below 50MB on my current setup, your setup may vary depending on number of connections and running torrents, a far cry from KTorrent claiming 500MB and more.
Installing Deluge was a bit tricky, the latest version 1.0.5 wasn't in my distro repos, so I had to grab it and install myself, but that wasn't the tricky part, the tricky part was the dependencies that I had to install, because for some reason my package manager didn't sort it out by itself, luckily all the dependencies were in the repos and it took me around 3 minutes to get everything sorted out.
So if you are looking for something lightweight and very well featured, look no further than Deluge, I highly recommend giving it a try.
Nothing!! unless they extend WebKit with incompatible features.
"There will still be a lot of proprietary innovation in the browser itself so we may need to have a rendering service," Ballmer said, adding, "Open source is interesting. Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8."
So, even if Microsoft adopts WebKit, it'll make sure that it wont be compatible with other WebKit browsers. Since WebKit is licensed under LGPL and BSD-like, Microsoft can add its own proprietary 'features' on top of it.
A lot think it is Microsoft’s incompetence that is keeping IE from catching up to the other browsers, but in fact Microsoft is deliberately making IE incompatible with other browsers to lock-in people to their OS, or that was their plan initially. It goes all they back to the 90s when Java+Netscape was 'supposedly' threatening Microsoft's desktop monopoly.
Why do you think people are going through the troubles of trying to run IE on Wine, I certainly do on OS X, but not because I love IE, but because there are a number of sites that are designed around IE bugs and don’t work with other browsers.
Microsoft has no intentions of bringing fast JavaScript to IE either, it wants to push Silverlight instead and keep locking people into Windows. Currently they are pushing Silverlight as ‘cross-platform’ but wait until they kill Adobe’s Flash. Just as they did with IE before, once they’ve killed Netscape, they’ve stopped releasing IE on other platforms, and even then it wasn’t 100% bug-compatible with the Windows version of IE.
Apple, it is about time you started supporting ODF in iWorks. TextEdit reads and writes ODT files and for that we thank you, but you need to take it a step further and officially support the format in your office suite. Lack of ODF support is a major deal breaker for me and many people. Even Microsoft is taking ODF seriously, and it's time you did too. ODF is an open format, an ISO standard, and there are FOSS implementations of it that you can probably integrate into iWorks.
