re: Still think your browser isn't obsolete?
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|And all this new stuff is supposed to be a good thing?
|Once the novelty has worn off and the oohs and aahs have stopped
|it amounts to nothing more than frivolous web page bloat.
|[...]
|I prefer the KISS method, Keep It Simple Stupid.
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Actually, with a Cascading Style Sheet, you only have to download that *ONCE*.
The style sheet can then be applied to multiple (all?) pages of a Web site.
This *should* be more efficient than (Web 1.0) inline formatting of individual pages
where you have to download all that markup again with each new page.
|If this is the kind of web development Microsoft held back for a decade
|then they deserve a medal for doing so.
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As I have noted above, Micros~1's dragging its feet on CSS
*may* have made you download many more bits than you otherwise would have.
That reticence on the part of M$
and the subsequent badness for your surfing experience
continues to this day in EVERY online app that M$ has released.
Some early pre-release versions of IE9 make it appear that
M$ is finally seeing the light (as their browser is being left in the dust).
The Browser Choice Screen mandated for Vista 7 by the European Union
has resulted in even larger numbers of people now using non-IE browsers.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/03/19/1246215&mode=nocomment
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/03/19/231231&mode=nocomment
As I continue to say, when people are *aware* that they actually have choices,
that makes for a better computing experience.
The ever-more-anti-competitve nature of the last decades makes me very angry.
It appears that 2010 may be a serious inflection point in that trend
--if only *outside* the ever-more-insignificant USA.
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