Taken

[Harrison]

I don't even get to see a play button. Just a black page with the word Taken in blue text at the top and the url www.biteycastle.com in yellow in the centre. Nothing else is on the page.

[Harrison]

OK. I finally got it to work. I loaded the page in IE7 *spit* on one of my other PCs.

And even though I was expecting it I did still jump slightly!

[Castelle]

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It is sad to see that Opera still only has about a 2.3% market share and Safari about a 2.1% share. Opera should be far ahead of Safari because it is a great browser compared to Safari which basically isn't! Although Safari is still a lot more standards compliant than IE.

Hi Harrison,

I agree with you, although I'm a loyal Mac (and A1200 ) user I have to lay the gauntlet down here. I used to use the Linux version of Opera and I loved it - the other ones that were available back then were crap and Opera was the only one that had loads of features that were nice to use...

Safari is a bit basic, as in, not that many bells and whistles but its a good reliable browser and I really haven't had a problem using it (nearly 5 years now)

FF I have tried in the past along with Netscape, Mozilla but I have to say that the worst browser in my view has to be IE. That is not a dig at M$ - its just ugly and loads pages slow - too farty for my taste - I have a wireless network here with 4MB broadband and Safari loads web pages almost straight away, these are sites I haven't recently visited so they aren't in the cache or anything - anyway, I regular clear my cache...

I think is a case what browser works best for you

Castelle

[Harrison]

I think is a case what browser works best for you

I disagree. Most people use IE as their browser because they don't know any better. As soon as I point anyone to Firefox they come back a few days later and thank me.

Developers hate IE because it isn't standards compliant. Every site I develop I have to add stupid IE hacks into the CSS code just to make IE align and display the layout in the same way as every other browser does with my default CSS.

But if you disregard IE then yet. Anyone using another browser is using it because they personally like it over the others.

Safari is quite a minimalist browser that is true, but I hate it because of the horrible anti aliasing it applies to the whole of web pages. It makes everything over saturated and blurred. Horrible.

[TiredOfLife]

I have heard that IE8 is going to be less compliant and may break many sites.
This has come from M$ themselves.

Another attempt to force sites to a standard non complaint with other browsers no doubt.

[Harrison]

Why do companies do this? Is it a fear of an open standard reducing their market share? In reality to just fragments the market and forces people to hate a product.

M$ are also doing this with multimedia software now with their new Silverlight technology which is going head to head with Flash.