18 Jun
Within 15 hours, already more than 5 million copies of the new version of the Firefox web browser have been downloaded on “Download Day”.
Firefox 3 comes with a bunch of nice new features. The one I like the most is AwesomeBar. It’s just… awesome!
Go and grab your free copy today and give it a try.
And Microsoft… they did it again! After sending a cake for the Firefox 2 release, they sent another cake for Firefox 3! That’s pretty cool, Microsoft dudes!
23 Jan
Yay. In the Microsoft IE blog, the IE developers announced that Internet Explorer 8 will come with its own customized
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="..." />
HTML header element. Brilliant idea, Microsoft!
Why follow standards? Why force HTML designers to think a tiny, little bit before setting up a website. Hint: Windows is NOT the only operating system on this planet and IE is also not the only browser. Come on, IE team, you know that…)? Why support platform-independent GUIs? Hint No. 2: have you seen this piece of software called “Internet Explorer” on any kind of mobile phone not running Windows Mobile? Who has the most market share in that market? I doubt, no I know it’s certainly not Microsoft.
And I was so naive to think someone finally did their homework. Awesome, Microsoft. Welcome back to the 1990s.
Update: Other blog authors also write about this “fancy new invention”: