Government dictating browsers. You can count on government to get it wrong.
--- On Thu, 9/2/10, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Stephen Russell <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NF] Chrome is 2 years old > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 3:59 PM > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:45 PM, > Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Stephen, > > > >> The people who are converting to Chrome, are they > former FF users or new people off of the IE stack? I use FF > at work and Chrome at home testing it out. > > > > I tested out the early releases of Chrome and thought > the product was > > released way too early. > > > > This summer I've been spending a lot of time with > Chrome (and FireFox, > > IE, Safari, and Opera). NOW I LOVE CHROME! Incredibly > fast - sometimes > > 10x+ faster than IE 8. Highly recommended. I've also > found Opera to be > > almost as fast or as fast depending on the page being > loaded. I'm also > > happy with Firefox and Safari, but these browsers are > clearly slower > > than Chrome and Opera. > > > > I have to use IE (7 and 8) as part of our test program > and these > > browsers really suck when compared to the state of the > art. IE is by far > > the slowest (a pig) and also requires the most > work-arounds to achieve a > > professional quality result. > > > > Our use case is rendering large, highly formatted > local HTML documents > > as a reporting mechanism. > ----------------------- > > I work at the County and they dictate IE7 is the > standard. The Doc > Management system we sell and support works with IE very > well and > other browsers inconsistently. Joy! > > I want to know if Chrome has the important add-ons in FF > that I want. > Firebug and MiniMap just to list a few. > > Chrome is fast at a few things and quirky with > others. It is probably > CSS sheets that don't cover Chrome as of yet but this is > purely a WAG > at this time. > > I don't test in Safari as of yet but should download the > Win version > just to see if our stuff works with it. > > > > -- > Stephen Russell > > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > CIMSgts > > 901.246-0159 cell > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
