Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 07, 2006 06:44 PM
You really didn't get the authors point. His particular audience doesn't care about browser development nor their timelines. They simply want a tool that works and makes their daily job easier.
In this case he choose firefox and showed his audience how the features firefox has could help them do things that weren't possible with internet explorer.
So, you say, why didn't he show off opera instead? The most likley answer is that the author prefers firefox himself and therefore it was the most logical choice (people tend to choose products they are faimilar with and like, even if there are other products that are better).
There could also be that Opera could be quite overwhelming to people that are NON-technical. It also doesn't integrate well with the rest of the windows gui (sure, firefox dosen't do that either, but it's still closer than the gui opera has).
I personally use Firefox, not because it is "faster" or "safer" or anything. Simply because I'm comfortable with the GUI. I've tried Opera several times in the past and used it in periods but I never got quite comfortable with the GUI.
Opera might be faster, use less memory than Firefox, but if that is the "price" I'll have to pay to use a environment I like I'm ok with that.
So my point after all this, use whatever browser you feel comfortable with (unless it's IE = 6, because its bad standard comliance is a serious problem for webdevelopers, ie7 will hopefully be better in this area).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 07, 2006 06:44 PMIn this case he choose firefox and showed his audience how the features firefox has could help them do things that weren't possible with internet explorer.
So, you say, why didn't he show off opera instead?
The most likley answer is that the author prefers firefox himself and therefore it was the most logical choice (people tend to choose products they are faimilar with and like, even if there are other products that are better).
There could also be that Opera could be quite overwhelming to people that are NON-technical.
It also doesn't integrate well with the rest of the windows gui (sure, firefox dosen't do that either, but it's still closer than the gui opera has).
I personally use Firefox, not because it is "faster" or "safer" or anything. Simply because I'm comfortable with the GUI. I've tried Opera several times in the past and used it in periods but I never got quite comfortable with the GUI.
Opera might be faster, use less memory than Firefox, but if that is the "price" I'll have to pay to use a environment I like I'm ok with that.
So my point after all this, use whatever browser you feel comfortable with (unless it's IE = 6, because its bad standard comliance is a serious problem for webdevelopers, ie7 will hopefully be better in this area).
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