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    Gearing up for Firefox 3

    The world's most widely used browser is going to launch its next version on June 17th.
    Firefox sure is going to beat its previous download record with already 1 million pledges on
    its site.
    So gear up for the next level of surfing the net.
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    No worries there, I'm already running FF3, ever since beta 4.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
    No worries there, I'm already running FF3, ever since beta 4.
    Ditto.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stevesmithx View Post
    1 million pledges.
    Pledges? Is Firefox turning into a fraternity? Is there a prize for promising to download FF3?

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    Quote Originally Posted by QuantumPete View Post
    Pledges? Is Firefox turning into a fraternity? Is there a prize for promising to download FF3?

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    Quote Originally Posted by stevesmithx View Post
    The world's most widely used browser
    Not really, no.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    I'd say that half of these pledges are really just "pledges" made by people checking out the browser.

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    Don't use FF so it doesn't mean a thing

    The internet won't change, only the browser does. Nothing 'next level' about that.

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    Tomorrow is the big day.

    The internet won't change, only the browser does. Nothing 'next level' about that.
    But browser changes sure are nice every once in awhile. I loath IE7 because of its UI. Whoever designed the user interface for IE7 needs to be fired.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stevesmithx View Post
    The world's most widely used browser is going to launch its next version on June 17th.
    IE8 is coming tomorrow? Oh, ........, everybody DUCK AND COVER!

    Seriously, I like FF, but it's just a browser, it doesn't save whales or something. I have to use IE7 at work and it's just as good. It renders a page. Period.

    Edit: And how much of a user interface does a browser need ? A "Back" button, a textbox for your favorite search engine. Tabs are nice sugar coating but you could as well just open new windows instead of tabs. An address bar. Maybe reload. Maybe cancel. That's it.
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    Opera > FF now and forever!

    Damn FF Fanbois.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thantos
    Opera > FF now and forever!

    Damn FF Fanbois.
    Agreed. Although I'm fine with any browser, I find to Opera to be faster than FF.
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    how much of a user interface does a browser need ?
    It's not a factor of "how much" but more a factor of "how well designed" and "how usable".

    Take a look at the following UIs of various web browsers:

    Attachment 8211

    As you can see, out of 5 web browsers (IE6, IE7, Firefox 2, Opera 9.5, and Safari 3), four of them use the interface of having a menu at the top and all the buttons (back, forward, refresh, stop, and home) in one place (all in the top left).

    IE7 takes the approach of deviating and puts buttons in 4 different locations. One of those sets of buttons includes the obscure file menu which is easy to find in all 4 other web browsers, but difficult to find in IE7.

    Simple fact: IE7 was extremely poorly designed. I don't care how well it might render web pages. My user experience with the browser was terrible, and the UI designer should be fired.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario F. View Post
    Not really, no.
    Not today, but soon

    Quote Originally Posted by zacs7 View Post
    Don't use FF so it doesn't mean a thing
    The internet won't change, only the browser does. Nothing 'next level' about that.
    Quote Originally Posted by nvoigt View Post
    Seriously, I like FF, but it's just a browser, it doesn't save whales or something. I have to use IE7 at work and it's just as good. It renders a page. Period.

    Edit: And how much of a user interface does a browser need ? A "Back" button, a textbox for your favorite search engine. Tabs are nice sugar coating but you could as well just open new windows instead of tabs. An address bar. Maybe reload. Maybe cancel. That's it.
    Oh, but the internet will change when IE8 lands. Hopefully anyway.
    What we get is more standards compliant web pages!
    And while the Internet may not change - our perspective of it will change with FF3.

    And you'd be surprised with how much a web browser can do or must do.
    Render pages, store your history and all that.
    But rendering a page correctly, pretty and as it should be isn't easy. FF3 is making it all the more better.

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidP View Post
    But browser changes sure are nice every once in awhile. I loath IE7 because of its UI. Whoever designed the user interface for IE7 needs to be fired.
    Quote Originally Posted by Thantos View Post
    Opera > FF now and forever!
    Damn FF Fanbois.
    Not that I have anything against it, but FF3 is now taking the lead in functionality and all. At least from what I've read.

    Quote Originally Posted by psychopath View Post
    Agreed. Although I'm fine with any browser, I find to Opera to be faster than FF.
    A fact that has now been disproved. FF3 is faster than Opera.

    And for the curious. Here is a link - guide to FF3 which contains a lot of the improvements to the browser. It should show us how much work has been put into FF3 and what benefits we reap.
    http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
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    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
    But rendering a page correctly, pretty and as it should be isn't easy.
    Depends on what you mean. For me or you? Yes, it won't be easy, just like it won't be easy to write a complex parser and rendering engine. For them, the browser makers? It's pretty darn easy considering they already built the foundations. They just need to adhere to the standards which have been unchanged for so many years. I can only tag as total irresponsibility the fact a browser still comes out these days without FULL standards compliance.

    And that goes or ALL browsers. Amaya included.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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