Posts by Wibble
506 posts • joined Saturday 21st March 2009 05:54 GMT
Neatly attacks the corporate/government assets
Thankfully IE's usage is dying on its backside, my logs are showing it at 24% and falling each month.
The problem is that big corporates and governments still use IE because of their standard builds, based upon Win XP and glacial slow update cycles. These environments rarely allow modern browsers, so IE usage on these estates will be 100%. This is a gift for the bad guys who can exploit IE with impunity. Once Microsoft patches this hole, it just leaves the rest of the IE sieve to patch.
It's really a failure of the IT department governance. But they're driven by policy, which is developed by the organisation which is run by people who've no idea what IT is... Such a sad state of affairs.
Re: 2013: Microsofts' year of hell
Or anus horribilis
Re: Cloud Services
Mobile Me was good; iCloud not so good as they removed most of the good bits of MobileMe (gallery, cloud sharing, email collation).
What's odd is that I was quite content with paying for MobileMe and felt it was good value for money. Now I pay them nothing for iCloud.
Facebook's billion users?
Oh do pull the other one; it's got bells on it.
Facebook may have a billion accounts, but that's got sod all to do with the number of *active* users. Most, and I mean most, of these billion accounts will be test/fictitious/defunct accounts.
Re: So should I endorse back?
No. It's pointless.
Re: "thumbs up"
Seems to be this rampant 'Merkinisation of the world... Can't just have a nice time, has to be "the greatest", "the best", "utterly fantastic".
What sets El Reg apart from the LinkedIn / FaceBook tosh is the downvotes. And my alter-ego. I'm massively uncomfortable about my "Real Name" on LinkedIn, hence my CV says sod all about what I really do.
Re: Backup chaps, backup.
Anyone can backup. Only heroes recover
Re: Glacial!?
Microsoft are always glacially slow in implementing anything to do with standards on their festering turd of a browser.
At the moment IE10 scores 320 on html5test.org; just about all other proper browsers are now scoring 400 or much more. It'll be IE11 before they will increase that score, always behind all other browsers.
Alternative energy AND an alternative plan
Nice to see (at face value at least) a radically alternative strategy. Nice balance to the nay sayers.
Might need my coat for winter though
Posted in Adobe's revenge on Steve Jobs: HTML5
Can't we also heap blame on IE?
Sure, Flash is one challenge in HTML5 adoption, but the other, possibly bigger challenge is that festering turd Internet Explorer.
Just run the HTML5Test.com and see that most browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera) are all scoring close to or above 400 out of 500 points. Internet Explorer 9 scores a dismal 138 and IE10 scores a barely adequate 320.
Web statistics...
Google Analytics webstats from a busy website, non-technical (health/lifestyle), transaction based (selling things). Period: 31st Oct to 30th Nov.
IE10 - 0.17%
In comparison, Opera gets 0.57%, Chrome 33.2%, Safari 18.18%, Firefox 15%, Android browser 6%.
I can't find any reference to IE10, Windows 8, or Windows phone in the mobile section (could be that Analytics doesn't recognise it?). The website gets 23% of its transactions from Mobile devices.
It would be fascinating to see El Reg's stats.
Re: Looks nice, but horrible to use
> Opera 12 and HTML5Test claims 404 points plus 9 bonus != my results
Proves the point nicely; ALL other browsers will be moving upwards. Microsoft will remain static as they're never updated.
As I was putting those numbers together, I realised that my Firefox was out of date (15 --> 17), so trying that again shows Firefox/17 as 392. So IE10 languishes as ever.
Re: Looks nice, but horrible to use
HTML5Test.com results...
* Chrome/23 = 448
* Safari/iPad = 386
* Opera/12 = 374
* Firefox/15 = 353
* IE10/rt = 320
* IE10/wait = 320
Question: which browser is at the bottom of the list...
As ever, it's the browser that's always at the bottom of the list and the browser that's least likely to be updated...
Re: Yay!
What's Clippy's name - Olive?
Foxconn?
What's wrong with Nokia - I thought Microsoft had 'bought' Nokia to build their phones? Well, at least they've bought Nokia's senior management;-)
Re: Good article
Looks like we've got massed hordes of Daily Mail and Fox "news" commenting and downvoting any comment not conforming to their opinions.
Re: Biggest load of bollocks I have read in a long time
Another recursive posting.
Re: What a load of bollocks!
A fine example of a recursive post, I.e. your post is bollocks.
Now go and read the Dummies guide to Economics, then go and read the Dummies guide to posting on El Reg
It looks like a MacBook Air
But I expect it's made of plastic.
Two (more) words...
Due
Diligence
Two words...
Caveat
Emptor
Most people would respond "What's an operating system?"
I suppose half of the respondents said that they wanted to be a fire engine when they grow up.
The thick of it?
Is this an omnishambles?
Re: From my weblogs...
It's for all mobile devices. It's a transactional health & lifestyle website and represents a good cross-section of society -- definitely not technical.
As I understand it, when it comes to tablets there's one massive player, Apple. The others aren't anywhere near as popular.
I've checked the figures I gave and the iOS figures are 50/50 iPad/iPhone (judging by the resolutions), e.g. around 30% each.
Android large screens are about 8.5% (spread across about 15 screen resolutions).
Is there something wrong with these results?
From my weblogs...
Just having a look at ye olde Google analytics for a busy "lifestyle" website, sorting by mobile device OS we have:
iOS = 67%
Android = 27%
Blackberry = 4.4%
Windows Phone = 0.7%
A bit like Windows 8; flopping in the noise.
Re: Proof that Windows 8 has flopped?
Hmm. Idiot: a person of low intelligence.
Attempting to use objective metrics to actually measure the usage of Windows 8 is a sign of low intelligence?
Windows 8 public release was 26th October, some 18 days of the sample period. It's been available as an enterprise version for about three months. It's also been available as an RC for 9 months...
I was expecting much higher numbers than that.
Still, the good news is IE6 is dying on its backside.
It's an utter hateful experience
The sooner this pathetic skuomorphic trend is stopped the better. It's so early nineties.
Proof that Windows 8 has flopped?
Looking at some web logs -- for a busy "lifestyle" website -- the statistics speak for themselves. In the last month 13 Oct to 12 Nov, the stats are:
Chrome: 32%
Safari: 18%
IE9: 16%
Firefox: 14%
...
IE10 (this is only available on Windows 8): 0.1%
The numbers are so low it places it in 40th place in the browser list, way behind IE6 in 23rd place with 0.32%!
Re: RDP client is free from MS
And it's a bit cack. Irritating that you can't pass over the winkey to the host. Having said that, I use it all the time as I've found it the best of the bunch; CoRD just doesn't hack it.
There are third-party Apple resellers who offer a pretty good support service. An iMac that went titsup in our office was fixed by calling the reseller who sent an engineer around within a couple of hours and fixed it on-site.
Personally I'd prefer to deal with a reseller. A bit more personal. Given that there's no Apple discounts available (re-firb & academic stores aside), there's no reasons for not using them in a business context.
What's the browser like?
Curious what the bundled browser's like. Given that websites are now all optimised for Webkit browsers in Android & iPhone, does the WinPhone's IE work or is it buggy?
Can you download a WinPhone emulator a-la Android & iPhone?
Just a web developer wondering if Microsoft have learned from their past mistakes.
T-Shirts
Can we buy El Reg T-Shirts? Just the attire for a typical geek.
Get to it...
Low res screen
Ugh a stupid 768 high screen; it'll be like using a letterbox. That's fine on an 11" screen, but 14" should be at least 900 if not more.
I bet Microsoft are miffed at the Apple pricing!
Now we know how much an iPad Mini is, Apple appear to have pitched it to deliberately undermine the price of the Surface!
Christmas this year is going to be interesting. I bet Santa will be buying shed-loads more iPads than Surfeits.
Popcorn icon please:-)
Every dog has it's day...
That user interface will have it's outing soon. The plebs will have their hands on it and the plebs will speak.
I know my opinions about the UI, I'm really hoping that the rest of the world will concur; it's the GUI that keeps you guessing and rarely shows you what to do. Maybe they translated it to Guessable User Interface?
Down Fido.
I'm waiting, with popcorn in hand...
I know what I think about the Metrofication of Windows. However, what I think is irrelevant as I'll have to use it to test websites, etc.
What I'm waiting for is the unwashed plebs to get hold of Windows 8 on their non-touch low-end £300 laptop from PC World. Even if they add touch, it'll be interesting.
Let the plebs speak!
Re: Size Matters!
Was it the sexual inyourendo that made you go blind?
How about adding a random number of miliseconds to each transaction settlement, say up to 1000. That'll sort out the gamblers from the genuine trades.
I still think that gambling tax aught to be added to stocks that are held less than, say, 7 days.
Posted in iPhone 5: the fab slab to grab
Article request for El Reg...
Could someone write a review of the best phone packages to get with an *unlocked* smart phone please.
I'd really like to see packages researched for 1 month rolling contracts and 12 month contracts, for all SIMs: SIM, SIM x 10^-6 and SIM x 10^-9
Posted in Windows 8 and you – So, what's next?
Re: Appeal to teenagers, dual screen, low spec machines
If WinRT on a tablet is fundamentally like iOS on an iPad, then it's not appropriate for work. Let me expand...
In my daily use with an iPad over the last two and a half years, including taking it as my only device on holiday, I've found it to be invaluable as a communications device. It's great for emails, simple browsing, consulting the calendar, etc.
However, due to it's single-task non-windowed model, it's completely useless at more complex work such as writing an email whilst browsing whilst quoting from a document whilst running a web app whilst checking on other emails, etc. You know, the normal day-to-day business things that people juggle around. Compare that with OSX/Windows where multi-tasking is standard.
The key challenge is that running "Windows" on a tablet, a-la those keyboard/mouseless devices from years ago was an utterly horrible user experience, not least because all the benefits of a iPod-style tablet is missing (zero on time, finger-optimised UI, long battery life, ultra light weight, etc.).
Posted in Windows 8 and you – So, what's next?
Re: Appeal to teenagers, dual screen, low spec machines
We'll have to wait & see whether the unwashed masses agree with you or not.
Posted in Apple iOS 6 review
Re: Going back
Arse. Restored the iPhone to 5.1.1 then tried to recover from the backup... alas this is "incompatible with the old version of the software". I don't have a TM backup to hand, so I'll have to restore it to iOS 6(.6.6) and re-try this later.
Key to this is getting the "iPhone3,1_5.1.1_9B206_Restore.ipsw" file from Apple.
Apple's going off the boil IMHO.
Posted in Apple iOS 6 review
Re: Going back
I've found this link on the Apple site. Wonder how long that will remain!
Posted in Apple iOS 6 review
Re: Going back
How can one 'backgrade'?
Like a prat I updated my iPhone 4 and now really regret it. How can one backgrade to the previous version?
Re: Seriously?!
Could it be a PR puff... get the market screaming about "ridiculous" prices, then announce a lower real price; everybody jumping for joy...
That's the way that Steve Jobs would have done it.
Re: can think of lots of things I would rather spend $99 on
A pot for Microsoft to piss in.
How much!!! They have got to be taking the piss.
Migration costs
For years Microsoft have pushed their broken standards into large organisations in their utterly misguided strategy to keep other browsers out of the enterprise at any cost. This resulted in Microsoft creating the "INcompatibility" mode in IE 7, 8 and 9. This mode continued to support their broken standards and myriad browser bugs. The IE works best culture is so embedded in many large organisations that they would not allow the applications to be tested on standards-compliant browsers as "we're only paying you to develop to our standard desktop build which you cannot install other browsers".
The unintended consequence is the massive cost of refactoring these applications. The developers have cleared off; the budgets are consumed; the cupboard is empty as far as further development is concerned.
Well now the magpies have come home to roost. Updates are upon us. The IT management's strategy which was based largely on thick-client thinking is exposed as being completely flawed. For some reason it's been quite OK to consider User Interface development to be fluffy bollocks, certainly when compared with "real" multi-layered stack development with exciting service bus architecture.
I told you so and you didn't listen. Ner ner ni ner ner.
I fecking hate Facebook and everything it stands for...
I don't and won't have a FB account and have no interest in finding out which proxy boy band shite is being pushed today.
I do hope that Apple haven't screwed with iTunes too much as it's already a pretty lousy application, particularly if you've a lot of music (none purchased from Apple). Itunes is utterly useless on the iPad, for instance sorting by genre.
Its such a pity there's no better music playing applications for the Mac, iPad and iPhone.
