Firefox sets a World record and Webyantra had a role to play in it!
Firefox completed its world record for most number of downloads in a single day with 8002530 downloads . And this blog played a small part in it - equivalent to 1 part in 8002530 (0.000000124 %). Here’s the certificate….
Firefox 3 is an absolute beauty. It has been tested to be much faster than Firefox 2, IE 7, the to-be-launched IE8, Opera 9.5. So overwhelming was the response to their download day blitzkrieg that their servers melted down as this story reports.
The browser wars are a real nightmare for web designers & developers. The lack of standardisation effectively means that cross browser compatability takes away a disproportionate share of development time. For an average AJAX/Javascript enabled interface, almost 25% of development time is consumed in making it work across major browsers. Without being prejudiced, I must add that IE is by far the biggest culprit. IE7 is not a problem, but IE6 (with almost 60% world internet penetration) is a HUGE one.
Case in point - on SlideShare we have had this mysterious problem with a particular interface where some of the elements (text, images) appear & disappear randomly in IE 6. We have tried to solve this embarrassing bug for 6 months now but to no avail…. our developers had almost given up. A few days back we finally tracked down its cause to something called the IE6 Peekaboo effect. Hopefully we shall be able to nuke this with the next release…..
Arun Srinivasan on Jul 4, 2008
I downloaded Firefox3 too, though I don’t have a certificate to show for it. As an end user, I don’t see too much different yet, maybe I’m not the web2.0 types to see the difference. But one thing I did notice was I’m having trouble viewing webyantra on my IE7, while there is no issue with Firefox3. With IE7, sometimes the different sizes of text keep running into each other, ala matrix
Tech Search Maniac on Jul 9, 2008
Firefox is the undisputed leader in browsers if we overlook the fact that the users of IE6 are simply using it because their computers come loaded with it and they are not aware of other browsers.And for developers its really a nightmare trying to get certain applications working on IE6 alongwith browsers like firefox ,opera etc