Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
As a Web performance consultant, I view the release of Google Chrome with slightly different eyes than many. And one of the items that I look for is how the browser will affect performance, especially perceived performance on the end-user desktop.
One thing I have been able to determine is that the use of WebKit will [...]
I am writing up a client presentation for next week, and I just realized just how flawed Internet Explorer is. Microsoft claims that the browser is standards compliant. Yet it still doesn’t support HTTP pipelining.
And the frustrating part? They won’t tell us why. I have my suspicions, which include TCP stack issues and a flawed [...]
In: smp
4 Feb 2005Port80 Software in San Diego is a team who is dedicated to improving Web performance.
However, they just recommended Maxthon, which uses the MSIE engine. [here]
I can’t buy into that. It still uses a core browser which has been patched but has not evolved since 1999. Until Microsoft releases a browser that can handle HTTP Pipelining [...]
In: smp
5 Jan 2005I am extremely steamed at an article that just read on Caillon’s Blog which basically encourages people to disable HTTP Pipelining.
This is the wrong approach.
If a server announces that it is HTTP/1.1 compliant, then it should be able to handle a browser that is using all of the HTTP/1.1 features. If someone is using a [...]