On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 21:52 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Giant Panda wrote:
> > Yes, google chrome is pretty nice!
> > It worth a try.
> > It looks lighting and fast.
> > Chrome is more faster than IE7 and have a obvious speed at start up.
> 
> My opinion: The world needs another browser like it needs a hole in the 
> head.

Frankly I'm astonished you'd say something like that.

The fact that IE was so dominant is the reason so many websites either
don't work on other browsers, or just look wrong. IE didn't follow
standards, MS just came up with what they thought would be easiest and
most useful for themselves and used their dominance to force everybody
else to follow along. Classic monopoly behaviour.

Never mind the fact that IE stagnated so badly in browser design because
they had NO drive to better it.

With Safari and Firefox showing the world what they'd people had been
missing, sites FINALLY started following the standards. The prevalence
of more and more mobile browsers is further pushing sites to forget
about only supporting a subset of browsers and simply supporting the
standards that have always been there. 

Only a few years ago MANY of the sites I tried to view either reported
they wouldn't work with anything other then IE, or simply didn't work.
These days pretty much all sites I use work with pretty much any browser
I try. This is a GOOD thing.

While Safari and Firefox are both far better then IE, they still have
many issues. Firefox in many ways has been stagnating of late, adding
pretty eye candy, but ignoring the fundamental problems (performance,
resource usage, stability). Chrome seems to be aiming at Firefox's
weaknesses very hard, and that can only be good for consumers.

TTYL

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