Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Work
4 Sep 2008The last two days of using Chrome have had me thinking about the purpose of the Web browser in today’s world. I’ve talked about how Chrome and Firefox have changed how we see browsers, treating them as interactive windows into our daily life, rather than the uncontrolled end of an information firehose.
These applications, that on [...]
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: GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
18 Feb 2006As a Web performance analyst, this is the sort of graph that melts your mind and makes you want to scream at the gods|goddesses to rain a plague of locusts on the offending System|Network|Web Site Administrators.
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This is a classic display of the “run in circles, scream and shout” problem identification and [...]
In: RANTING
17 Mar 2005As the Web moves toward the delivery of services, I have been ruminating on the continuing importance of browsers.
Scoble writes:
Oh, well, back to my RSS news aggregator. That’s where I spend 90% of my Internet time now anyway. Are you still using a Web browser? Good. I’ve been telling audiences that those of you still [...]
In: smp
14 Dec 2004Scott Berkun has written a very thoughtful essay on building a better browser (#37 – How to build a better web browser). Scott cut his chops on MSIE 4 and 5, so he has seen the inside of the process used to kill the reigning champion (at the time, Netscape).
Very interesting perspective, placing browser development [...]