espy wrote:It was on the Wiki that the release was 6:00pm tonight GMT but that seems top have now changed to 7:00pm GMT so who knows.
Should be very interesting. Release is appently at 9 in the evening here in Germany, that would be 8pm for you brits. Hunt, where did you get the 6pm thing?
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Registered 11 years agoWooHoo!!! wrote:IE8 does that too.
The IE8 beta doesn't work with my RAS setup so I've had to bin it!This space left intentionally blank.
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DodgyPast 7,860 posts
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Registered 8 years agoWhizzo wrote:
It'll end up on my machine as a semi debug tool since it can be used to see the load web pages and plug-ins put on your machine.
Not having one tab going nuts and taking down the browser will be lovely. If it lives up to the comic's promises this will be an easy switch for me.
I'll have to see how all the plug-in development moves on before it'd make it as my main browser.
Still it is designed to make web apps run as well as possible and is the reason that Google have done this.
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Nothing wrong with IE7
Have you even used IE7?? It's rubbish! Slow and bloody crashes all the time. And if you have it running for a long time it just keeps on chewing up memory like there is no tomorrow
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Registered 6 years agoL42yB wrote:
Probably around the turn of the decade thenmcmonkeyplc wrote:
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Nothing wrong with IE7
Have you even used IE7?? It's rubbish! Slow and bloody crashes all the time. And if you have it running for a long time it just keeps on chewing up memory like there is no tomorrow
Firefox is good though. Will still have a look at Google Chrome, but not until it's out of beta
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I only complain about the rendering engineDer_tolle_Emil wrote:
It's only the rendering engine, not the whole browser.burns wrote:
That's it then, because if it is true then the google browser is dead to me. Safari on Windows is a failed abortion of a browser.
It's based on webkit, which is used by Safari if I'm not mistaken..gif)
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I think 'fonts' look better! Not as clear though. The reason is that Safari (and OSX) render fonts with emphasis on the accuracy of the font using antialiasing to render half pixels, whereas other browsers on windows push fonts to the nearest pixel - making them much clearer, but less true to the font.
I only complain about the rendering engine It's horrible if you have to concern yourself with corparate design/identity because not even the fonts look like they should. -
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Do you think they're doing this in response to Adblock blocking their ads? If they make a free, good browser that keeps all ads they may drive their profit back up.
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You do know this new browser is completely open source right?
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MS started much the same way. FAT is a MS IP and they let the OS community use it for nope i.e. MS was once heralded as the 'freedom fighter' against the big evil IBM.Xerx3s wrote:
You do know this new browser is completely open source right?
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Registered 7 years agoThat web comic made me spit blood. Fucking Merkin companies and their stupid infantilisation of the whole world.
"Hiya guys!!1, I'm a great big smiley faced indie guy drawn in a deliberately and cynically low-fi manner and I just can't wait to tell you about multi-threading in an immensely patronising way!"
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Registered 6 years agoXerx3s wrote:
Strange how the hunter becomes the huntedCarlo wrote:
MS started much the same way. FAT is a MS IP and they let the OS community use it for nope i.e. MS was once heralded as the 'freedom fighter' against the big evil IBM.Xerx3s wrote:
You do know this new browser is completely open source right?
TBF, google seems to become the new MS.
Microsoft do that?
I remember the old days when MS started out. They had a hard job pushing standards on people and so created everything from an open platform but ever since windows 95 which, to be fair, pretty much galvanized most desktops to one environment they have had a monopoly on what formats to use etc and they closed the source code right up. I guess it's natural if someone makes a product they think is so good that they want to protect it but do you think google will go this route too?
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That's true, it's still a problem though because when you have images with fonts then you can clearly see the difference. The worse part is that there is no way to influence font rendering at all in any browser to make fonts look the same in every browser.Der_tolle_Emil wrote:
I think 'fonts' look better! Not as clear though. The reason is that Safari (and OSX) render fonts with emphasis on the accuracy of the font using antialiasing to render half pixels, whereas other browsers on windows push fonts to the nearest pixel - making them much clearer, but less true to the font.
I only complain about the rendering engine It's horrible if you have to concern yourself with corparate design/identity because not even the fonts look like they should.
Most of the time it's not much of a problem but to be honest the Apple community so far could be easily ignored. Safari on Windows didn't have as much impact as I expected but I'm afraid that the Google browser will find much more acceptence so the importance of making sure a webpage looks good in that browser as well will be much higher.
After a while you figure out what you can do that will look pretty much the same in all of the big browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera) without having to change anything or just very little. Safari (or WebKit to be more precise) is just something that may have to be considered in the future as well and I don't like that. Especially because from my experience there is so much that the rendering engine is doing a bit differently that I cannot influence at all. -
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from that it says:
Beta is for US onlyGoogle announced Monday that it has been hard at work on an open-source browser known as Chrome, a beta version which will be broadcast in 100 countries on Tuesday.
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It's just that particular site that's only releasing it in the US. Google's official page isn't up yet, and it'll be available over here too.
Beta is for US only
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Der_tolle_Emil wrote:
Are you sure the font rendering isn't specific to Safari and not WebKit?kdsh7 wrote:
That's true, it's still a problem though because when you have images with fonts then you can clearly see the difference. The worse part is that there is no way to influence font rendering at all in any browser to make fonts look the same in every browser.Der_tolle_Emil wrote:
I think 'fonts' look better! Not as clear though. The reason is that Safari (and OSX) render fonts with emphasis on the accuracy of the font using antialiasing to render half pixels, whereas other browsers on windows push fonts to the nearest pixel - making them much clearer, but less true to the font.
I only complain about the rendering engine It's horrible if you have to concern yourself with corparate design/identity because not even the fonts look like they should.
Most of the time it's not much of a problem but to be honest the Apple community so far could be easily ignored. Safari on Windows didn't have as much impact as I expected but I'm afraid that the Google browser will find much more acceptence so the importance of making sure a webpage looks good in that browser as well will be much higher.
After a while you figure out what you can do that will look pretty much the same in all of the big browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera) without having to change anything or just very little. Safari (or WebKit to be more precise) is just something that may have to be considered in the future as well and I don't like that. Especially because from my experience there is so much that the rendering engine is doing a bit differently that I cannot influence at all. -
Aw come ooon I want to try this.
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How web 1.0!
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The screenshots look interesting.
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