Do you mean to tell me that Microsoft DOESN’T adhere to STANDARDS put together by someone else? Wow.
This press release by The Web Standards Project states that MS is a bad, bad boy. Whaddayaknow.
Apparently, IE5.5 for Winblows is simply ignoring W3C standards and adhering to its own set of “innovated” technologies.
But Bill Gates told me just yesterday on the telly that the best is yet to come! These W3C people must not know what they’re talking about.
Today Netscape released a preview of the new version 6 browser. You can pick it up here and see how you like it.
So far, I hate it… It has crashed twice in two minutes. Yuck!!!!
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Yea, MS slaughtered in the last week, along with all my favorate stocks, by way more than 15%, but this was an interesting blurb regarding Apple, especially when I bought a PPC 8500, and apple stock was around $13.00 a share. I should have bought stock instead of the computer. In any case Apple’s 2-year run from the mid-teens to nearly 130 where it stands today was not easy to forecast by many who had given up on this innovative computer maker in the mid 1990s. Although it is unlikely that Apple’s stock will again be a ten-bagger, there are many signs pointing to this very positive run continuing for the forseeable future. DLJ announced last week that Apple’s newest products, including an upgraded PowerBook, iBook and Power Mac G4, were “flying off the shelves”, leading to greater than anticipated sales and margins, at a time when many PC manufacturers are seeing sales struggle. In addition, Apple’s board of directors is looking to allocate an additional 600 million shares this next April, in what many see as an anticipated 2-1 or ever 3-1 stock split, the first for the company in quite some time. At a time where many PC makers are lowering margins and fighting a race to the bottom in price and features, Apple is leading the way with innovative designs, software and access to the Internet without sacrificing price margins or quality. Even if you are not familiar with Apple’s products, you should soon find yourself familiar with Apple’s stock.
So if anyone was totally asleep at the wheel yesterday, Microsoft was found guilty of everything we know they already do. Now they will be streching out this verdict over the next few years through appeals. Anyone else bummed about how long this is taking besides me??
Oh yeah… thanks to the stock market, the companies overall value droped 15% last night. I think it’s wonderful Apple is kicking the shit out of everthing on the stock markets.
Today Microsoft failed to come up with an acceptable settlement in its landmark case against the DOJ and because of that the judge is going to be offering up his own verdict by 5PM (EST) today… I personally think he is going to lay down the law and slap MS with some hefty shit… which will probably only help to encourage Microsofts appeals.
Here is a strange site…if anyone else can figure out exactly what the hell the point of it is, please let me know.
My only comment is that a DHTML scramble is probably not the most user-friendly way to display news headlines. Oh yeah, and also, usually a news “headline” is associated with some kind of “story” that can then be linked to and read…I couldn’t find that feature here. I don’t think MSNBC is sweating these guys.
Okay. So Hotline provided me with Internet Explorer 5b1 long before it was released to the general Mac-using webpublic. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t surprised with the final release. From what I can tell so far this MS product is actually a worthwhile download. Just a few of its high and low points:
Good:
1. At only around 8MB is size, it’s even possible for the average 56k modem user to download within a reasonable time.
2. It seems that that pesky memory leak in the beta versions has mercifully vanished.
3. The fact that the Address Autocomplete is finally up to par with what Windows users have had for ages (and it’s even translucent! Wow! Just like Windows 2000 menus! Where do you suppose they got that idea?
4. That page holder is nifty for the intranet I use every day but don’t want as my start page.
5. The interface is all Aquafied and lined like an iMac. It’s actually a pretty good looking browser. You can even change the color. I don’t know why you would, though, because….
6. It autoselects its color to reflect the color of the computer it’s installed on… (I’ve only seen it automatically be blue on a blue and white G3 and graphite on a G4… If it can select the interface color to match the iMac it’s installed on, that would be interesting).
7. Again something Windows users have had: you can now have folders of links on your toolbar now, not just links. This is actually really handy… assuming you spend your time organizing your bookmarks.. which would, let’s face it, be more than a little pathetic.
8. For all you Flash developers out there, it seems that IE5 now FINALLY understands Javascript passed from within a .swf file. You have no idea how long I spent trying (and failing) to get standard popup windows to work in IE4.5.
Bad:
1. While it has a tighter rendering engine than any other Mac browser, I have had some problems with it selectively ignoring top and left margin=0 commands in my body tag. You hit reload, and it obeys, reload again, and it’s back to faulty code rendering.. not something I’m too happy about.
2. It has a fondness for ignoring the bold tag… That’s not too cool either.
That’s about it. Only a couple problems.. (although it’s taken my system down a couple of times… might be an extension thing.. I’m still figuring that out. And I’ve had a few suspicious Error Type 11 failures with not IE, but other applications that NEVEr crash. Like SimpleText.). Those problem are pretty annoying, though. We’ll see if MS can get a patch out relatively quickly (ha!).
Hey kev…here’s that $300 PC you were looking for…eMachines eTower – Cyrix M-2 366, $299.00 at PCMall.
Okay. Anyone who’s ever needed something to inspire them ( a broad statement, I know) in the realm of either programming or design, check this out:
http://www.soda.co.uk/soda/constructor/index.htm
Seriously. EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS.
