Why web developers should NOT support IE6- anymore!
a blue screen of death for ie6 users!! (just ranting.. ;-)
Ok, i have been developing for a long time. When i approached the web I've been using MOSAIC ! Who knows it? It was the "first" modern browser - it introduced a revolution: "images and text were shown togheter!"
WOW! Does it sound "ugly"? Maybe. But now is common to view video, text, photos, feeds and so on all togheter in the same page. No one before MOSAIC thougth about "multimedia" showing. And now we can say that no one use it anymore!
If you think a bit deeper MOSAIC,Microsoft IE -all versions-, Safari, Firefox all of them simply show "content", multimedia content.
Now let's think about a DVD Player, a BLURAY player.. and VHS player. They all show content (usually video content). AND... is a FACT that you can't use a VHS player to play a DVD. You can't use DVD player to play a BLURAY disc. And is a FACT that movies companies sometimes sell film in just one form factor...! And if you want to PLAY that movie (at home) you need the right "player" -and you have to buy it, pay it, mount it, testing it and bla bla bla!
What's next web 2.0?
where the web meets desktops!
What's next web 2.0? Johnnie , 980km.com, well explained something about: web 2.0 doesn't exists, USER 2.0 is what is happening: shortly, users are more experienced to web!
We are using the same technology as some years ago: Javascript, HTML interface, some flash.. and much more interaction. Ok, maybe today we named that different. Javascript is jquery, or mootools. HTML is XHTML. Flash is faster and richer but it's always flash...and the net is faster. But all these 'magic' happens always inside browsers. UH? browsers?
(from wikipedia) A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network.
Firefox download day. Flop or success?
17 of June. Download day. Firefox team had a good (marketing) idea. but 4,845,209 downloads is a good enough? in 12 hours?
Ok, almost 5 million of download in a half/day. Seems huge.. but is it? My point is yes! Reading these world wide web statistics (if true..) it seems that Internet user are about 1.4 billions. So about 3/1000 of users downloaded the new version of firefox.This means that most part of users just stay with their actual browser (ie6, ie7, firefox 2, opera, safari..). Furthermore, other statistics (i.e. wikipedia, or thecounter ) state that firefox has a 15+% of the whole browser's cake, about 210 million people using it! WOW!