Austin Smith

Small Victory for Good Browsers

Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 01:26 AM

Microsoft has to stop bundling IE with Windows in the European Union. Opera, which complained to the EU, cited IE's blantant disregard for web standards. I'm very happy that web standards have finally become a matter of international law, and I know plenty of people who work closer to the frontend than I do that will be happier still.

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Taking Opera for a Test Drive

Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 06:02 AM

I've been quite frustrated with Firefox's memory use on my Mac, so I've been shopping for other browsers. Safari is alright, but I don't love how it looks, and it can be a little slow sometimes as well. Camino is nice too, but it lacks some of the features I like. So I decided to take Opera for a spin, and so far I love it.

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