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Battle of the Browsers

Thursday, 26 February 2009 ‡ 08:03

It is really hotting up now, the three big players in the browser market are really pushing their products to be 100% compliant,

• Firefox - v3.2 Alpha 1 is 94% compliant
• Safari v4 Beta is 100% compliant
• Opera v10 Alpha 1 is 100% compliant

Google Chrome v2, which uses the same browser engine as Safari is pushing 99%, Konqueror is at 83%. I have installed Safari 4 Beta on all my machines at home and work, PC and Mac. Apart from the silly placement of the tabs (IMO) Safari looks good, starts up very quickly, is fairly fast and eats little resource, especially compared to FF.

There will no doubt be issues and problems, but this would not be development and hopefully this Beta release will allow some rigorous testing.

Why does this matter? It means that the code web developers create and write, which we know and learn to be correct will now do (almost) exactly as it should in any (almost) browser, no more hacks, no more complaints and no more stupid ignorant comments like "Why does it not work in IE? The whole world uses IE so it should work in IE first!"

Why have i not mentioned IE 8? Are you taking the piss? IE 7 was only 14% compliant, IE 8 RC1 is only 20% compliant. How the fucking hell do Microsoft think that IE 8 is at RC1 when it is only 20% compliant, the nearest rival for any current stable release browser is over 70% compliant, heck previous versions of some browsers was over 40%!!! If you are using IE you are using the wrong browser, just because most of the world uses IE doesn't make it right. Anyone who develops web sites and web applications using IE, is NOT a web developer, period.

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