Google Crome
Is google proving anything by entering an already saturated market or are they taking over the world.
In December 2008, it had a share of 1.04% of the browser market. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. The public stable release was on December 11, 2008.
- Developed by Google Inc.
- Initial release September 2, 2008 (2008-09-02)
- Latest release 1.0.154.43 / 09 January 2009; 5 days ago
- Preview release 2.0.156.1 / 08 January 2009; 6 days ago
- Written in C++ and Assembly
- OS Microsoft Windows (XP SP2 and Vista); Mac OS X and Linux in development.
- Size 8.43 MB
- Available in 43 languages
- Development status Stable
- Type Web browser
- Website www.google.com/chrome
IE6 Duplicate Character bug
Internet Explorer 6 has a puzzling bug involving multiple floated elements; text characters from the last of the floated elements are sometimes duplicated below the last float.
This bug is a real headbanger because there seems to be nothing triggering it. However, by now everyone should know that IE needs no excuse to misbehave.
The direct cause is nothing more than ordinary HTML comments, such as, , sandwiched between floats that come in sequence. Apparently, the comments are hard for IE to digest when they occupy those positions, resulting in a kind of "screen diarrhea". HTML comments inside the floats do not cause the bug, nor do comments before or after the float series. Only comments residing between floats cause the bug.
The effect seen is that some of the last characters from the last floated element of the series are repeated outside and below that floated element. The first sandwiched comment does nothing unusual, but two comments cause the last two characters in that last float to repeat. Each additional comment makes two more characters join the party. It doesn't matter which pair of floats straddle the comments. In fact the two triggering comments may follow different floats as long as they have floats both before and after them.
Are you a app developer let me know your thoughts?
The problem with percentages
We often use elements that have dynamic widths and heights by defining those attributes as percentages. But there’s a problem with percentages: they don’t play well with others. Despite everyone’s best attempts, you just can’t mix up pixels and percentages (although I’ve read rumors that it’s in the cards).
While we can create relatively effective layouts using just percentages, we can’t then have a fixed-width side panel or a fixed-height header. So percentages just aren’t going to do the job in our layout.
