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To stay on the same note, I don't know what was criteria used to list browsers but I find it funny that two main stream browsers were left out from the list: Midori and Kazehakase. Obviously Google Chrome also has far more chance to be ported one day to *BSD than Internet Explorer.
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What is a mainstream browser? From the top my head IE has ~75% market share, Firefox ~20%, and 5% is all the rest ... Opera (A ``mainstream'' browser) for example only has a ~.5% market share ...
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There are no native Opera binaries for OpenBSD and I do not like to turn on Linux compatibility layer as it is against my religion.
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slightly off-topic, but can't OpenBSD run FreeBSD binaries?
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That website is by a MS advocate and should be ignored.
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Ah yes, of course, I forgot!
Code:
if (Microsoft())
{
Evil();
Ignore();
}
How is it possible people don't see this highly intellectual and open-minded position!
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The stuff he listed was generally wrong
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Such as?
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over 3 years and 2 versions out of date
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It includes Firefox 2, so it's just one version (And FF3 is rather new).
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Firefox 3.1 will be released soon and ...
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Yes, this is the firefox motto:
firefox <next version> will be released soon and it will fix problem x, y, and z.
Been hearing that one for years.
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Chrome's engine is also on hyperdrive.
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Chrome is alpha and years from a stable and usable state.
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IE8s javascript engine is 6x slow than everyone else.
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IE8 is a beta, so it's not really fair to judge it by that.
Also, as far as I've noticed it's not really that slow, but I haven't seen any benchmarks (Do you know of any?).
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Firefox's so called "memory leak" issues were ancient history when 3.0 came out.
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Yes, 1.5 whole years ago!
In any case, it does make a point about the general quality of FF.
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IE8 will still be the only major browser that cannot do XHTML and SVG graphics.
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Actually, plugins for IE SVG support have existed for quite some time.
And the IE people are working on XHTML for IE ... I would not be surprised if the release version of IE8 will support it.
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No one would cry if IE went away today.
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Only about 75% of the web, but who cares about that minority?