Safari 4 Public Beta released!

150 Features

Initial impressions:

• Beta quality, and not Google's definition of Beta.
• Cover Flow is cool, but adds bloat. The good thing is, it uses (and needs) GPU acceleration.
• Tabs on Top don't work as well as they are on Chrome.
• Supposedly faster than Chrome, nothing I've noticed, but it is faster than Safari 3 and Apple claims 30x faster than IE7!!!
• CSS Animation are awesome! I like this feature and would like to see it used more.
• Native look and feel on Windows shows that Apple actually cares. This was a major complain of a lot of Windows users who tried Safari 3.
• Top Sites obviously taken from Opera, but Safari does it in a flashy way.
• The inline progress indicator is actually missing.

EU requires MS to offer other browsers

Now what?
Wont most people just opt for the familiar ? Those aware of choice, the bundle of wont stop them from grabbing their favorite browser.

When will IE6 go away?

On Feb 19 Norwegian sites started a campaign against IE6, since then the campaign spread to other countries. Is this enough? IE6 was released in 2001, since then we had IE7 and now we have IE8 RC1. To think 8 years after people are still using IE6, and more than 20% of them no less!
There are some reasons for this however:

1. Default on Windows XP, the most popular version of Windows today
2. Corporations who haven't upgraded and have intranet apps that depend on IE6 bugs and quirks
3. Windows 98 SE, ME and 2000 users
4. People running it on Wine, as it is -until 1.1.14- the latest version that works
5. People who fear tabs
6. Apathy
   

How will, in the long run, this campaign affect IE6's marketshare is to be seen. Keep in mind this is not a war on IE, it is just a war on IE6, and is blessed by Microsoft.

Norwegian sites declare war on IE6

Major Norwegian websites began to actively block IE6 and recommending users upgrade to newer browsers including MSFT's own IE7. It was bound to happen, I'm just surprised it took this long. IE6 is obsolete, evil, crap, doesn't work, obsolete and evil.
I'm motivated by the campaign and added some HTML code to warn IE6 users. I'll eventually add IE7, once IE8 is released. Eventually...
The campaign is documented in this wiki.

Noooooooooooo!

Google Chrome for GNU/Linux will use GTK+ and not Qt. Why would Google choose GTK+ over Qt? Qt would integrate better with WebKit as both are written in C++ and have similar lineage. WebKit was initially a fork of KHTML, KDE's rendering engine, and KDE uses the Qt toolkit. Another reason to use Qt is it has better themeing support than GTK+, it'll look native on KDE and it'll look native on Gnome. Here are some screenshots of Arora web browser that uses Qt, it easily integrates with the underlying desktop environment.

Santa, and everyone else, hates Sony!

December was bad! January is worse!
Playstation 3 is dead to me!

January 2009

PlayStation 2  101.2K
PlayStation 3  203.2K
PSP            172.3K
XBox 360       309.0K
Wii            679.2K
Nintendo DS    510.8K

Now we go back in time to compare!


January 2008

PlayStation 2  264.0K
PlayStation 3  269.0K
PSP            230.0K
XBox 360       230.0K
Wii            274.0K
Nintendo DS    251.0K

It's more than obvious that the Playstation family is enjoying a drop in sales! Wait! I didn't mean to say enjoy, did I? I meant to say they are suffering a drop in sales!

But wait! Remember the 10-year plan!

Playstation 3 shalt prevail! Wait and thou shalt see!