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Dorky? Slightly. Clever? Very.
The Process
Mostly how it works. (Always to plan)
140 days or less?
Apparently frequent Twitter’ers have shorter relationships than real life human beings.
(As validated by over 830,000 users from the incredibly insightful OKCupid blog)
Usual MSFT spin
Microsoft’s marketing claim:
“Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device. We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver the most native HTML5 experience and the best Web experience on Windows. The only native experience of the Web of HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9.”
Opera’s Bruce Lawson retorts (sensibly):
“The beauty of the Web is that it’s not native to anything. It works on the newest Android phone, any desktop browser and even the ancient Nokia phone a friend of mine in India has. Even though the native devices are completely different, the thing that unifies them is the Web. And HTML5 is the new evolution of the lingua franca of the Web.”
Mozilla put up a satirical website in response.
Colour Conscious
All colours aren’t equal in the world of ecommerce. A colourful infographic from the bright minds at KissMetrics
Servers Size
1 in 50 servers in the world belong to Google…
User Experience
Not much more to add to this (but it IS admirable how well the UX of the graphic accomplishes exactly what it preaches):
Programming-essays
Courtesy www.somethingofthatilk.com:
IE9, modern (relatively speaking)
Possibly open to interpretation as ‘fighting words’, the Mozilla crew takes aim at Microsoft’s lofty claim that IE9 is the most HTML5 ready.
Interesting post, to say the least. Microsoft’s distribution model, unlike Chrome and Firefox, involves stable releases without incremental updates for draft features — and so, increasingly reliant on widescale standards being adopted. Chrome, who pushes updates silently, will likely never get the penetration it needs with corporations, who prefer the stability of an unchanging browser.
That said, there is an increasing developer community that resents MSFT’s archaic model and slow evolution (the blog post claims Firefox 3.5 released 2 years ago, is STILL more web compliant than IE9), and have stopped developing or allowing features to degrade gracefully for IE users.
Users are becoming savvier and uninstalling or downloading more versatile browsers.
A marketing battle to see who boasts the loudest will ensue, bet on it. In the end, that which shows the most sites best will likely prevail. Microsoft would be smart to start winning over the developers and designers who create them.