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Posted 01:56am 01/5/11
If I was to make forum posts about other browsers would you promote them? Kind of annoying to see this kind of shit as news... I understand 4.0, or even minor feature releases like 3.5 or whatever it was but a minor bug release? Slow day in news much?
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Posted 05:23am 01/5/11
Trog: A poll if you please.
e: Actually just post up the user agent stats from the server logs
Posted 10:53am 01/5/11
Safari seems clunky and slow, I gave the new IE a run but didn't like the design.
Posted 11:17am 01/5/11
I post about new releases of Firefox for the following reasons:
1) it's awesome
2) it's really awesome
3) it's open source and freely redistributable and easy for people to download and try out, if for some reason they haven't tried it
4) some other reasons but I got bored of making a list!
but mostly...
5) Most of our user base uses Firefox. No need for a poll, I can tell you what everyone is using because we STEAL YOUR PRIVACIEZ:
I sincerely apologise for the time you wasted though in reading this article. If you can also let me know what games you don't like I will make sure we don't post about them to prevent further wastage of your time!
I will guarantee though if you post news about Opera I will more than happily promote it (as long as it's in a news-postable format with minimal editing; same rules as for all our promoted posts). I'll even mirror the installers so everyone can download them locally. Not biased against Opera at all, it's just hard to devote much time to it when it seems barely anyone in the world actually uses it to access our site.
Posted 11:37am 01/5/11
Not blind to the faults of Firefox. I am a long-time Firefox user and think it is probably one of the most siginficant pieces of software ever, single-handledly responsible for decimating the Internet Explorer userbase.
I think Firefox's new roadmap is a big step back for Mozilla. I don't like their plan of just copying Google's system for Chrome. I think v4 shows why it's a bad idea - to me, at least. They managed to copy all the parts of Chrome that I think are dumb (removing the status bar, and one other major change that I can't remember) and somehow ignored the things in Chrome that are genuinely game-changers - the super-fast startup time and the generally better performance.
I don't want to be using Firefox 11 in 8 months time just because they've changed their version numbering system to match Chromes. I refused to believe people are so stupid that they'll think it's a good thing. Noone I know pays any attention to the Chrome version number, because it simply changes so fast, but the Firefox version number is clearly indicative of major functionality changes so it's a great indicator.
Also here are some other interesting graphs - Firefox usage for as far back as we have records (2005 it looks like) and IE, Chrome, Opera:
Also might be of interest, this is mobile stuff in the aggregate (so includes iPhone, Android, etc). iPhone, iPad, iPod appears to account for over ~75% of the total here, Android is around 13%
Posted 11:39am 01/5/11
Good to see Chrome on the up!
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Posted 12:07pm 01/5/11
Chrome for me is snappier and does everything I need it to do so I am staying with it.
also lol at trog's FF fanboyism :P
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Posted 12:55pm 01/5/11
I mean if you have an Android phone, use Chrome and have a gmail account then Google pretty much know everything about you. While the old rationale of they probably don't care enough about you to want to know all your little secretes is true, it's still disconcerting to think about it.
Posted 12:58pm 01/5/11
lol top 10 in a 10 man race.
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Posted 02:38pm 01/5/11
Back to FF(v4) and it's super-fast. With actual plugins.
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Posted 09:50pm 01/5/11
PS. who the fuck moves a refresh button!??!?!?!??! RAGE!
I use firefox for developement and after having it open with barely any tabs it still runs really laggy, I often have to restart it (to the exact same point I was in) to be able to use it without slowing down my development time. I'm on linux so maybe they just don't give it as much care as windows and mac.
PPS. I'm an opera fanboi? You out fanboi me easily!
PPPS off topic.. Another thing you are pasiionate about is how servers are done... I am writing a system for dedicated servers to support official and unofficial server... but anyone can be official, they just need to apply for a key. I want to talk to you about what you expect etc, I will also be blogging on wolfire.com about it at some point in the future hopefully... can I email you or should I start a discussion here about it on the forums?
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edit: I shouldn't say fully fledged. My shadow mapping has self shadowing problems, my texturing is temporarily taken out, there's no capacity for animating meshes, and my mesh datastructure is balls. Tbh it was amazing at first because I'd never done anything like it, but now it's just an endless uphill battle of balls. :'(
Posted 09:39am 02/5/11
The handy dandy plugins are the only reason I've stuck with firefox. Chrome might be faster but it doesn't have the plugins I know and love.
PS. You can move the buttons wherever you want in firefox.
Posted 09:46am 02/5/11
Posted 11:26am 02/5/11
I made a reflective, shadowed sphere raytracer and also a shitty software renderer once. Bare minimum stuff (texture, coloured triangles).
3D coding is fun times. It's more of a way to waste time to me though.
Posted 01:29pm 02/5/11
I has plans for it. ;)
Posted 03:42pm 02/5/11
there arent.
chrome 4 lyfe
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Posted 02:49am 03/5/11
bit of a deal breaker
Posted 09:21am 03/5/11
Very interesting.
Hey Nerf can you recommend any good javascript books? The only decent book I have found is JavaScript: The Good Parts. All the other books have been hopeless at explaining the more complex ins and outs of javascript.
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Posted 04:03pm 03/5/11
I'm mostly self-taught, I started out messing around with Google Web Toolkit (allows you to write "Java" code but it instead compiles it to JavaScript, with a few caveats), then started learning piece by piece from there for the sake of optimisation amd understanding pure JS examples.
For the most part my only interest in terms of pure JS has been speed. Mostly this has come down to understanding the effects of the scope on identifier resolution (here), and various tricks specific to rendering etc. There are various tricks I use in the way I loop through sets, and I've had amazing, though not entirely understood, results from trying to write my code in a way that allows operations to be done entirely on the CPU without accessing the comparatively slower RAM. (I stumbled across this accidentally when a test I was writing suddenly became several magnitudes faster, and looking into possible reasons I eventually came to the conclusion that the new method was able to work entirely within the CPU cache, but now can't quite remember how that worked despite working it into some foundations of my rendering algorithms :(. )
edit: My brain isn't alive enough to make a more coherent post right now sorry.
Posted 06:26pm 03/5/11
with chrome it is hit and miss, only has room for six results, and invariably wastes some of them with results that don't seem to belong there
i do like how it inlines google search suggestions though