Opera Mobile version 9.5 is noticeably faster thanks to a re-engineered Presto rendering engine and features a new browser interface and downloadable Opera Widgets.
This looks interesting and Internet Explorer is really slow in Windows Mobile it would seem.
[via Engadget]
All browsers render text a little different from each other.
(Internet Explorer 7, Safari 3 and Opera 9.5 attempts to render Chinese characters with various levels of success in readability.)
I compared Windows Internet Explorer 7, Apple Safari 3 and Opera 9.5.
In my opinion, Apple Safari renders best Chinese characters, followed by Windows Internet Explorer. Opera didn’t look good at all! It’s probably something to do with Microsoft’s ClearType behaving differently. I do most of my web browsing in Apple Safari these days. A pretty good browser but it’s got some memory leak problems and at times use up 1 GB of memory.
It seems that Apple Safari might have some problems with Google Reader. Leaving Google Reader for hours is impossible for me. Yeah, I do open other tabs but they’re just text most of the time.
The HTML5 draft reflects an effort, started in 2004, to study contemporary HTML implementations and deployed content. The draft:
I kinda blog about this HTML5 thing for my own benefit. I just thought it would be useful to take a look at it again another time. They are introducing new elements such as <dialog>, <figure>, <nav>, <header>, <footer>, <datagrid>, <progress> and more. Good news is that getElementsByClassName() is going to be added.
And it would seem like HTML5 is stepping in to help developers expand the capabilities of their web application. It appears that the internet is very serious about moving to the direction of web applications. It may be a good idea to prepare to enter this industry. I’m entering it and I’m pretty optimistic about it.
Elements such as <header>, <article> and <footer> isn’t really necessary, but if developers were to all deploy these tags, they probably isn’t a need for those feeds at all. Every website can easily become feed-enabled.
They’re dropping some elements though, such as the <u>, <frame>, <frameset> and <center>.
Unfortunately, with all these additions, HTML5 is getting more complicated. The learning curve would get steeper. There use to be a time HTML is about layout and positioning and everyone’s using <table>. But things are changing, it’s about layout and XML items. They just sort of changed direction or something. Teachers are probably going to find it hard to explain a macro picture of why those new elements are present in HTML. My web publishing teacher in school isn’t even teaching me CSS that time! In fact, she’s still teaching about font tags when it is already deprecated. CSS was a ‘read-up’ thing. Good to know, don’t need to know for examinations.
Just want to share my thoughts about HTML5, hahaa… Sorry that this post is a little disorganized, I typed in a hurry.
This document describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes that have been made to the language.
Apple Safari is now on Windows! Currently it’s in public beta. Safari claims to have HTML, JavaScript and load performance better than Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. That’s like wow, I thought Opera is quick enough. I’ll give the public beta a try. It looks pretty cool too.
Get the Apple Safari 3 Public Beta here. It’s got everything a browser ought to have so I guess I have nothing to loose. 
I wish Internet Explorer and Firefox learn something about speed. I’m a little upset over Internet Explorer’s execution of JavaScript, I always feel slow, indeed it may be due to bad coding.
A voluptuous anime bunny woman, created in time-lapse using thousands of lines of HTML code to individually create and color table cells as pixels.
That really test sanity, doesn’t it?
Google rolls out new version of Google Analytics and it’s looking better than ever!
What is new?
In the new version, your reports have been redesigned for clarity, greater visibility of important metrics, and ease of use. Here are just a few of the features you’ll notice:
The new interface has everything the previous interface had and more. In addition, links within reports make it easier to navigate related information and explore your data. (The above is from an email that Google sent me.)
Anyway, let’s take a visual tour of the new interface.
The interface undergoes a tremendous update, first of all. It looks much cleaner, much sleeker and feels faster. I’ll share with you some site statistics meanwhile.
From the above chart, you can see where my visitors are coming from. Not many people come from Asia and the reason is that most people come to this blog for images. I mean, they even took image of my brother’s birthday cake and post it on blogs to wish their friends happy birthday, wish they at least link back sometimes. I don’t block hot linking but I discourage hot-linking by placing a watermark on all my images. (more…)
Finally! 9.2 is launched today. 9.2 is not only an important update with bug fixes and the new Speed Dial functionality, it’s also a milestone in spreading Opera to new users around the world: Opera 9.2 for Windows ships with 31 languages.
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