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January 20, 2005
HOUSEKEEPING: BELICOVE.COM IS NOW FIREFOX FRIENDLY
Thanks to the good folks up at Grip Media, Belicove.com is now Firefox friendly and compliant. If you're not familiar with Firefox, it's the new web browser--for both the PC and Mac--that leading publications are saying is better than Internet Explorer, by leaps and bounds.
From the January 12th edition of Business Week Online:
How's this for a mismatch? On one side, you have Microsoft, the world's largest software company, with $37 billion in revenues and 57,000 employees. On the other is the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit with a $2 million budget and just 16 employees wedged into a single room in a Mountain View (Calif.) office park.
It's Godzilla vs. Mozilla, and Mozilla is a midget. Yet the pipsqueak is pulling off a feat that would have seemed preposterous a year ago. It's taking chunks of share from Microsoft in the Internet browsing market. According to a survey released on January 12, 2005, by analytics firm WebSideStory, Mozilla's free Firefox browser has grabbed a 4.6% share over the past six months and seems well on the way to its stated goal of 10%.
I downloaded the browser last night, and the speed at which it loads pages is quite amazing. If you're not using it, click here to visit the official Firefox site. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who prodded me over the last six months or so to make the site Firefox compliant. A special debt of gratitude goes out to Don Passenger of HTMLfixIT.com, who took the time to provide me with an in depth analysis and solution to the problem, and to Jerry Chrisman of Grip Media for making the necessary code changes throughout this FrankenBlog of mine.
Posted by Mikal at January 20, 2005 5:10 AM
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I have always used a Mozilla based product ( Netscape ) and yesterday, I noticed the difference with the way your site loaded. For once it loaded properly.
Thanks
Thanks Mikal,
I have been using Firefox for about 6 months now but had to see your site on IE. The tabs and extension expandability are much better than IE.
Thank you very much! I've been a happy Firefox user since the middle of last year, when a friend finally convinced me that I should get off the Internet Explorer bandwagon. After a few days of use, I was instantly hooked. The combination of a solid web brower, innovate features, expandable plug-in architecture were all great. But the two biggest selers were that it was a standards-compliant browser -- a lot more so than Internet Explorer -- and the enhanced security features.
Internet Explorer is playing catch up, though it's catching up fairly quickly. With the new security features included in Windows XP SP2, it's coming close. But I can't really forgive Microsoft for resting on their laurels for years after the fall of Netscape; that type of corporate arrogance is unacceptable. However, it's still lacking. PNG transparency, which would change the way graphics are used on the web, is heinously broken. Relative table cell widths are shattered. And don't even mention seamless compositing...
I really appreciate the fix-up of your site... it's one of the best-looking blog sites I've come across, and it was a shame I'd have to swtich back to the "E" to view it! But I no longer have to do that... hooray!
Much better. M$ isn't even close, contrary to a comment above. Even after SP2 there are major problems with security. I use Firefox for the bug-me-not extension, web developer extension, google extension, tabbed browsing, etc. It also offers RSS live bookmarks if you have not fiddled with those yet. I have a tute on that over at htmlfixit.com although I prefer to use Thunderbird (the great email replacement you should also be using from http://mozilla.org for spam filtering and much improved security). Anyway, I can now visit again when I am too short on time to scroll three miles down to see you site Mikal.
Looks Great! I actually noticed it yesterday. I'm using Linux, so IE is not an option. Even if it were, I'd still use Mozilla/Firefox because of all the features.
Don,
Thanks for the tip on Bugmenot. Very handy extension.
Dave
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