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Comment Re:An interesting way to summarize the data ... (Score 1) 422

But, to be fair to the article, IE 6 and IE 8 are two wildly different beasts. IE 8 is MUCH closer to Firefox 3.5 (and Safari 3, Chrome, etc...) than IE 6. From a web developer's perspective, I'd much rather this article break the browser's down on their capabilities than their names/families.

Comment Re:StatCounter? (Score 1) 422

The vast majority of Firefox users browse the web with no extensions whatsoever. The summary states that Firefox is at a certain percentage (a high percentage) according to StatCounter. Yet you seem to believe that StatCounter's numbers are worthless (and low) -so what, you think that Firefox actually has a much, much higher percentage of the browser market than what is quoted here? You say that "most" FF users use NoScript, and, hence, aren't including in this survey? I don't think you've quite thought this through.

Comment Re:No biggie (Score 1) 610

So, let me get this straight. Apple does at least as much industrial design to the computers that they sell, their "off-the-shelf" parts notwithstanding, as Dell and HP. (I would argue that they do much more, but I'll leave that be.) Additionally, Apple uses its own complete operating system, which guarantees that its computer experience is significantly different from Dell and HP. These computer makers just use Windows. And yet, somehow, Dell and HP and are each more of a computer company than Apple?!

I don't think the grandparent is the one who's impaired.
OS X

Submission + - Ars Technica's John Siracusa Snow Leopard (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Not so much a scoop, but an interesting and fairly in-depth look at the new version of OSX from Apple. Includes some nice descriptions and examples of the parallel additions to the underlying libraries and compilers.

Comment Re:Platform Politics (Score 1) 290

If only there were some easy and popular way to distribute music in another format. Something portable, but digital, so the songs could ultimately be copied at high quality from the original format onto hard drives and, ultimately, onto MP3 players. This could be huge â" think CD-ROM...but not for computer programs or games, but for MUSIC!

Comment Re:Simplicity is Complex (Score 1) 128

I don't do iPhone development, so this may be off base: but isn't it trivial to drop a "web view" or something like it into an iPhone application? From that point forward, you'd be able to use standards compliant CSS, JavaScript and HTML to your heart's content.

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