Really guys, what are you talking about? Now you code once and it works in all browser, I wish things where this easy 10 years ago! Browser improved a lot if you consider standards, compatibility, performances and security (less virus, adware)!
Sent from my iPhone On May 11, 2012, at 5:19 PM, David Krings <ram...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 5/11/2012 3:36 PM, Hans Zaunere wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> So, in a mix of rant-and-feedback-gathering - is it just me, or have >> browsers largely gone downhill in the last few months? >> > > Hi! > > During the past few months? It is like that for quite longer. > > FF 4 and higher just sucks, the UI is horrible and the switch from 3.6 to 4 > broke a lot of things that are still not fixed....unless you happen to know > the add-on that unfixes the 'fixes'. I also get the impression that the > Mozilla folks got way more arrogant. They use to be thankful for constructive > criticism or had at least a good reason for why things are the way they are. > Now they ignore any user input and if a response comes along it is typically > along the lines of "Go away!" > You can escape the rapid updating (which Google started with for no reason) > by installing the FF10 ESR build. That branch is back to the old, reasonable > update schedule. > > > Chrome is IMHO crap from the start and it did not get any better. Yes, it > loads pages faster and uses less memory, but it also doesn't do anything > other than that. I also like some UI with my fat client. > > IE is very dependent on the local settings, when they are a bit harsher than > mildly restrictive a lot of things just stop working. It also get the > impression as if we are back to being forced to IE-only development dragging > around different code for IE while the typical code works just fine > everywhere else. > > Opera is technically nice and can do a lot of things, but I find it utterly > kludgy to use. Safari is like Chrome, a lot of sauce with not much meat. > > > As far as getting things to work the way I want I still have most success > with FF followed by Chrome. I tend to not try it with Opera and IE and Safari > are not even considered. I have the luxury to consider it the other's loss > when they use these browsers and things don't come out right. Not everyone is > as lucky. > > Generally, I agree, browsers are heading back to the stone age, especially > with Flash getting thrown out all over the place. HTML5 isn't properly > implemented in most browsers and the pieces that are included are working > differently. The problem is that HTML always only specified the markup, but > not the display or functionality. It suggests an option, but really leaves a > lot to interpretation. > > > > Just my 2 ct. > > > David > > > -- Sent from my desktop PC -- > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
