Internet Explorer: The greatest viral campaign ever made?

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Browsers are now an indispensable tool and, very probably the best known application software in circulation. Where once this supremacy lay with applications like Microsoft Word, today the podium is occupied by the application that has revolutionized computing, communication, and perhaps the entire world. Thanks to its simplicity, the browser has spread rapidly and adaptive capacity that few other applications have been able to show: cross platforms (multi-platform) and cross devices (multi-part).
Surfing the Internet is possible thanks to your browser, we can use it from a PC, a Mac, from a handheld, the new "mobile". All this is possible, inter alia, due to the simplicity (in theory) of - true - work that a browser must do: convert visual information coming from the network.
When a browser displays a page correctly, 99% of its work is finished! The Color tab, auto-completion of addresses, unlimited options, management of bookmarks and everything else, are helpful but an outline. With the same features, therefore, we should all agree that "the best" is one who displays the most of what we want to see!

Why, then, the most popular browser is the one with the worst features?

If going to comb through the various statistics of browsers used, or simply watching the statistics of your website or blog, you'll find that Internet Explorer holds on average over 70%, followed by Firefox, Safari and Opera.

Performarce

A little 'accounts just to realize the paradoxical situation. These are data (Web Browser Benchmark Comparison) on the performance of engines to browsers and therefore important, if not important in so-called Web 2.0 applications, low values (we speak of time, specifically in milliseconds) show better performance:

Benchmark

Acid Test

Moving-side graphic rendering the acid test 3 (already tried some time ago in Four browsers: Acid 3 Test a disappointment ...) speaks for itself, in which case higher values indicate improved capabilities:

Acid Test 3

Summarize:

Summarize

Make sure to write a browser?

If anyone wondered why Google has decided to develop its own browser, and why Microsoft is finite even in court, the issue of pre-installation of IE on Windows does not know which part of the revenue derived from advertising on search engines like Google , Yahoo, Live Search, and others, are "shot" to the browser that has generated the search! Since we are talking about large quantities of money, it becomes clear why that drives the development of a browser, but then released without charge. It is obvious that Google has grown tired of "shooting" part of its revenue in external Web browsers. The spread of Google Chrome a biggie would save a lot '!

Changed!

If you have a PC and find the proper pre-installed Microsoft Internet Explorer, do not be overcome by laziness and, for once, try the thrill of change! Install a different browser is easy, just click below:

Viral effect: wanted or pure chance?

Then there is a personal issue that grips me! Or rather two: the first is that as a programmer I just can not understand how bugs are already present in the coarse versions 5, 5.5 and 6 of Internet Explorer have been dragged out, despite the numerous reports and complaints. Certainly can not say that Microsoft has difficulty to perform updates on your system, given its "always on" Windows Update. Even more curious fact is that a browser grafted into the operating system as Internet Explorer suffers scarcely security updates but not those related to bad interpretations of CSS or Javascript. This will remain an eternal mystery for me!

The second issue is the archive of posts undolog. I realized, in fact, how many times I wrote complaining about the malfunctioning of Explorer. Well, finally I have spoken ill but still spoken! And if all this was deliberate? Maybe I was a victim unconscious, along with someone else, a well-studied viral campaign! Even if you think about it, not necessary ...

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4 comments to: "Internet Explorer: The greatest viral campaign ever made?"

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    December 18, 2008 Nicola Ballotta:

    What can I say, I agree fully ... if we all just want to banish laziness, install linux, here the default browser is Firefox, and you have an operating system much more agile, with graphics that beats the Mac and open source software installed fimi d with 2 clicks. Try here: http://www.ubuntu.com

    Congratulations for the article Giò :)

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    December 18, 2008 vik:

    Why, then, the most popular browser is the one with the worst features?

    Simple, it is already installed on most popular operating system. A "normal" user does not change browser to laziness, ignorance, habit or simply because he has the administrator rights on the machine. Thankful that IE7 supports (almost) the PNG.

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