Filed under: Software Engineering | Tags: Browser, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Web Development, Web-standards
Got a little time over and nothing to do so I thought I should get back to the browser issue. Time for a little comparison, as I’m on a mac atm I didn’t bother getting IE, so the comparison is between Opera, Safari and Firefox. So what is the comparison about? How well they follow the standards, and to do that I used the acid test suite. And here are my findings:
Opera (Presto)
I used the latest version I could find, that is 9.51 build 4877 this is how it scored
Acid 1:
Pass
Acid 2:
Pass
Acid 3:
Fail (83/100)
Comment: I know that there are Opera builds for Linux and Windows that passes the acid 3 test but this test was done on OS X. However a score of 83 is good.
Safari (WebKit)
Also the latest version I could find, which is Version 4 Developer Preview (5526.11.2)
Acid 1:
Pass
Acid 2:
Pass
Acid 3:
Fail (97/100)
Comment: Also here there are builds of Safari that passes acid 3, but apparently not this one even though it’s really close. Another comment that isn’t really related to the test, but I found this build a little bit flaky as I managed to crash it twice since yesterday.
Firefox (Gecko)
Same here, the latest version, Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1pre) Gecko/2008062004 GranParadiso/3.0.1pre
Acid 1:
Pass
Acid 2:
Pass
Acid 3:
Fail (70/100)
Comment: This is very interesting that the latest version I could find (I know there a pre-alpha 3.1 but I couldn’t locate it) performs worse than the stable version (Firefox 3 scored 71/100).
So to sum it up, no browser is there yet when I comes to complete support for web-standards when using OS X. Safari and Opera are getting there, and they’ve shown that they can do it. What this means for the ordinary user, probably nothing for now. But it’s really good that they, the makers of the browsers, are striving to standardize the web to make it easier for everybody.
Filed under: Privacy, Sweden | Tags: FRA, Försvarets Radio Anstalt, Swedish Government, Privacy, Terrorism, Paranoid
For my loyal readers that are not from Sweden, FRA is the government agency that will do the eavesdropping.
As most of you, swedes at least, know it will soon be legal for the government to look at everything that is sent by wire and that is crossing the national border. Everything! The once so free state of Sweden has gone all out Gestapo on us. well maybe that’s a little bit dramatic, but it’s a step in that direction.
Even if this would to keep us safe from all possible threats against us I don’t think the slaughter of the personal integrity would justify it. But if that was the case I could by the argument, but as every one who has thought about this for more than 5 minutes realise that everyone who wants to stay “beneath the radar” will do so with out any problems. The “only” trafic that FRA will be able to see will be the traffic generated from average Joes, that don’t have the knowledge or the will to make sure that no third-party looks at what they’re writing. Luckily one of Sweden’s biggest newspapers posted a list of how to cipher your traffic so that every should know how to do it by now.
The worst part of this mess is that the ones who voted for this law should know that it will be useless against terrorism and everything that they say that they are trying to stop, or they are utterly incompetent. So either the people in charge are will use this law for something else than what they say it’s for or Sweden is run by nimvits. In either case it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
If they really wanted to keep us safe from terrorism and other threats to the nation here are a few tips on what they should do:
1. Start reading all the snailmail, I mean it’s actually possible to send a bomb this way.
2. Cut all connections to the world around us, if we can’t communicate we can’t get the idea to build a bomb, right?
3. Control and censur all media channels, same reason as number 2.
4. Start patrolling the borders, maybe some sneaky terrorist decides to walk across from Norway, Finland or take the boat to our //irony ahead// great country, //end of irony// and we can’t let that happen can we?
5. Ban everything that is explosive and all sharp objects, bye bye soap and fishing hooks.
So now we should be safe, right?
On a last remark I saw this interview with one of the party leaders this morning, and she kept repeating that not everyone in the world is nice and want Sweden well, and that is a good insight. But I can’t understand how she failed to recognize that not all government employees are good and won’t look into things they aren’t supposed to look into. The ultimate irony of all this would be if FRA were infiltrated by a terrorist and they used this system to keep track of the Swedish government.
Filed under: Basketball, Boston Celtics, NBA, Play-off | Tags: Boston Celtics, NBA Finals, Paul Pierce, World Champions
They did, and the best team won.
Congratulations Boston Celtics to the 17th world championship!
Filed under: Basketball, Kobe Bryant, Los Angles Lakers, NBA, Play-off, Sports | Tags: Basketball, NBA, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Finals, Paul Pierce, Kobe Bryant, Ray Allen
This is a player that just gets better when everything is on the line, like game seven against the Cavs, and especially in this series. His injury and return in the first game was spectacular and 38 points in game 5 were pretty good. He is so important for the Celtics on both ends of the floor, and now it seems as he is back on the track, 7 assists and 6 points so far. The Lakers can’t find a good match up against him.
The Garden is on FIRE! The Celtics are physically beating the Lakers on the rebounds and the knocking down back to back threes. Zero offensive rebounds for the Lakers so far, and eight for the Celtics, that’s the difference in this game at the moment. Where’s Kobe now? And all the other westcoasters for that matter? ‘Cause when the Celtics are teaming up around Kobe somebody has to get open.
Hehe, Fisher is chasing that ball with no respect for his own, or the cameramens’ life. Second timeout in a very short period from Phil Jackson, but they need it, if they can’t stop this Celtic run soon, they’re gone.
Ray Allen is back, good to see that it wasn’t serious.
Filed under: Basketball, Kobe Bryant, Los Angles Lakers, NBA, Play-off, Sports | Tags: Basketball, NBA, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Finals, Kobe Bryant, Rajon Rondo
He started the previous game on fire, then nothing, then nothing, then something and then the game winning steal and dunk. In the first quarter in the last game in LA he played like he was the best player on the planet, he made a fool of anyone trying to defend him, then he totally disappeared. Why?
And it was the same in this game too, he put down trees with hands in his face, when he was bumped, looked totally unstoppable. If LA are going to win on the road he needs to play on that level, but will he?. However so far the other lakers have not looked unstoppable, Gasol totally invisible except when he turned the ball over to the Celtics. But the Celtics are struggling with their shooting in the beginning. Especially Rondo but I like the fact that he is in attackmode, and he showed some nice moves, and four steels so far, gotta like that. I wonder when Ray Allen will be back, he is vital for the Celtics offense with his 3-point reach. This is a fun game!
Filed under: Basketball, Kobe Bryant, Los Angles Lakers, NBA, Play-off, Sports | Tags: Basketball, NBA, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Finals, Kobe Bryant
Somehow the Lakers managed to hang on to their lead, even with a Kobe that played sub-par. They will have a tough time in Boston on tuesday though, but more on that and mor from this game later.
Filed under: Basketball, Boston Celtics, Kobe Bryant, Los Angles Lakers, NBA, Play-off, Sports | Tags: Basketball, NBA, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Finals, Sports, Paul Pierce, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett
The Celtics started the second with a bang, an fifteen-o run cut the lead to 4. But the biggest improvement, the defense!
Paul Pierce is the best Celtic, no contest. 21 points and great presence on defense, making life miserable for Bryant.
Garnett needs to show better judgement and not play on the edge when he knows he is in foul trouble.
When the Celtics is playing at their best, they are the best. I can’t see how the Lakers can win three straight games, two of those in the garden in Boston
39 points in the first, 16 in the second. All of it because of the Celtics defense. I has been said so many times before, but defense wins championship.
Bryant shut out in the second! But to his credit he made some key assists.
There were a lot of contact in that half, and I love it. There could almost be called a foul on every possession, play-off basketball at its best.
Filed under: Basketball, Boston Celtics, Kobe Bryant, Los Angles Lakers, NBA, Play-off, Sports | Tags: Basketball, NBA, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Finals, Sports, Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher
The Lakers said no in the first quarter. They really put a stop the Celtics offense by denying them the open looks, they had some help from the Boston players though. For instance Rondo had a perfect look, sure the pass was beautiful and if Pierce had made the 3 points it would have been great. But he didn’t, so basically he turned an easy two. Bryant looked as sharp as ever nailing a tripple of threes, he is up there with MJ in my eyes. Not saying he’s better, but he is up there. The Celtics are a resilient team and has come from behind before, and they got there offence going a little in the late part of the quarter, but the Lakers has them where they want them. Taking the lead with 17 points, after an impressing show of offensive firepower and variety. One thing is sure, we’re in for a good one.
By the way, ouch! The foul on Fisher where he crashed into the camera man, that got to have hurt, and I’ve seen fighters in the ring go down for a lot less, but he’s a fighter and got up and still plays some good basketball
What’s to do for the second quarter, the Celtics must stop turning the ball over to limit the transition points and play better defence. They’re good on Kobe, but seem to be forgetting everyone else. 22 points in the first is ok, but letting the Lakers score 39 is just no ok. For the Lakers, just continue doing what they’re doing already, and stay out of foul trouble.
Filed under: Rifotech.se, Software Engineering, Web Development | Tags: Acid tests, Browser, Layout Engine, Rifotech.se, Software Engineering, Standards, Web Development
Why do they have to interpret everything in there own way?
Yeah, I know why but it’s really annoying when you are trying to develop a site, as most of you webdevelopers know, you have to style the site for almost every browser. Though things are starting to look better as web browser evolve. But none of the public builds of the most common browsers (layout engines, really) follows the standard, and most of the development builds are not there yet. And even when the public builds will, if that ever happens , follow the standard some people will use old versions that break the standard.
However that was not the problem for me as I was doing stuff that wasn’t compliant with the standards, since the current standards didn’t cower that. I managed to keep it working with the Trident (Internet Explorer), the GECKO (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari) but for the others fixing it just took to much time. So what could I do, keep the site up, most of the users would be able to use it anyway, spending the entire weekend working on a patch to make it work for the current versions of all browsers or take it down and re-design it to make it adhere to the standars, I chose the last alternative. So that’s why rifotech.se will be down for a while. But trust me it’ll be worth waiting since the new version will be better, more beautiful and give you a lot more.
Filed under: Football, Houston Texans, NFL, Sports, Tennessee Titans | Tags: Sports, NFL, Fotball, Tennessee Titans, Houston Texans, Rob Bironas, Matt Schaub, Sage Rosenfels, AFC South, Jacksonville Jaguars, Vince Young
It’s almost two month left until the preseason starts in NFL, the draft has allready passed and the teams or holding some mini-camps. Not much happening in that world in other words. So since there is no other quality sport on today ( I couldn’t care less for the Golden League competitions), so that leaves me with the games from the last season I haven’t already watched. Today it was the Titans vs the Texans from week 7.
Boy, that was an ugly game, or first half rather. And I’m a defensive kind of guy, I much rather have a 0 - 3 game where you have to fight for every yard than a 48-37 game where every other play ends with a touchdown. But the Texans and Titans they couldn’t hold on to the ball, it was like they had soaped it up or something. It wasn’t so much good defense that stripped the ball as much as bad offense who simple put it on the ground. But apart from that you’ve got to admire how physical the Titans defense were, I guess Matt Schuab can confirm that. In the second half the offenses, especially Houston seemed to have figured out the Titans defense, but still they made some devastating turn-overs. How the Titans managed not to lock that game up earlier is still a mystery for me, I guess things would have been different if Vince Young was healthy. And I think that running the same plays with Collins at the rudder instead of Young, is plain wrong. Cause Young relies a lot on his athletic ability, that Collins is no where near to have. But cudos to Bironas, eight field goals and two extra points that is something.
Looking at Tennessee’s schedule this season I guess that the season opener home against Jacksonville will set the tone for the season. If then can stop the Jaguars physical running game and let Vince Young make some plays against the Jacksonville defense, should be interesting to see if the Jags new defense ends can contain Young, they Tennessee could have a pretty good season. Maybe a 10 - 6.
For the Texans I feel that things aren’t looking as good, they had a .500 season last year, and I have a hard time seeing that they will improve that. Especially when their division friends all looks like, and were last season, teams of play off caliber. There are so many areas that they need to improve, I think that they lack the skills in the defensive secondary that is needed. And neither Schaub no Rosenfels provide enough to be a contender in the tough AFC South.
