After reading CSS Selectors - Speed Myths I decided to try the slickspeed test on the three browsers I use on OSX currently.

The new safari blows the other two away. Once firefox 3 is further along I will try it too.

My Tags: macosx css browsers

Here it is 2007, and still major players can't manage to support multiple browsers or create even marginally valid markup.

I tried to find something with yellowpages.com with Safari only to be told:

YELLOWPAGES.COM's default maps require your browser to be javascript-enabled.

If you are seeing this page, your browser has been identified as not javascript-enabled, or otherwise might have trouble viewing YPC's standard maps.

Lovely. I looked at the page and got disgusted by all the crap I found. First they use what appears to be Microsoft's Atlas and added a long Mozilla compatibility javascript library (which explains partially why it doesn't work on Safari). Plus I found that they included their unit testing javascript on every page. Not to mention the massive validation errors.

Maybe it would have been more honest to say: We don't care for Safari users, so get lost. That's about 15 million people. More than use Vista at the moment.

I still can't find in that morass where it decided I was unworthy. Who's to blame for this crap? I would love the opportunity to help them fix it.

Their mozilla javascript has comments like:

TODO - Needs thorough testing (especially timing related tests)

I wonder if they did any? When I tried Firefox it took almost 30 seconds for the map to show up.

Apparently they didn't read my post Steve Jobs Doesn't Put up Crap and Neither Should You.

My Tags: wtf html browsers

Looking at my stats for today, it's interesting to see that Firefox users are about 60% of the readers of this blog, 18% use Internet Explorer, and 10% use Safari. Of course everyone that reads this blog is a programmer, and most code in Java, so all it proves is that programmers are wary of using IE. Two jobs ago almost the entire developer group used Firefox, and almost 100% of the rest of the company used IE6.

Fortunately the rest of the world is slowly moving away from IE, even with 7.0 I expect it will not have the clout it has had in the past. That two jobs ago company still only officially supported IE6 at the time I left (May 2006). Maybe it will change finally.

I used both Safari and Firefox 2.0 on my Mac, and have a copy of Parallels running to look at my work in IE. When I do have to work with IE6, it's not a pleasant experience at all. IE7 is better but not really all there yet.

I wonder what the stats on Reddit and Digg are...

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