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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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.
No worries there, I'm already running FF3, ever since beta 4.
I'd say that half of these pledges are really just "pledges" made by people checking out the browser.
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.
Tomorrow is the big day.
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:
The internet won't change, only the browser does. Nothing 'next level' about that.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thantos
It's not a factor of "how much" but more a factor of "how well designed" and "how usable".Quote:
how much of a user interface does a browser need ?
Take a look at the following UIs of various web browsers:
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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.
Not today, but soon :p
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.
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.
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/
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.