Archive for 2 September 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-02

By on September 2, 2008

  • I’m a day early… thought I was back today… oh well and extra day’s rest won’t hurt. #
  • Can’t wait for the Google Chrome beta (later today… should be available late tonight) #
  • MacZOT has Parallels Desktop 3 for Mac 40% off (save $30) http://maczot.com/ #
  • When will my iPod Touch be able to Wifi sync with my iTunes? #
  • Lots of work to do before I’m back tomorrow–still have to finish office, pack stuff, and finish domain management… #
  • walking the dog… use Godaddy codes GB1, GB2, and GB3 to support @calilewis and geekbrief.tv, and save $$ on your .com purchases… #
  • Done walking… When can I get my hands on Google Chrome??? Why are they keeping us hardcore geeks from it?? WHY??? #
  • The Google Chrome download should be available in 20 min, at 11 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT, 3 PM my time…. But Chrome is Windows only though :-( #
  • watching the Google Chrome debriefing at http://tinyurl.com/5ojqz2 #
  • Chrome from Google today; “Let’s Rock” from Apple next Tuesday… Tuesday really is a bad day for MacBreak Weekly… Google Chrome http … #
  • Google Chrome is available at http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
  • Google Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome/ is only a 450kb download! #
  • This is my first tweet using Chrome… it’s awesome! It’s a lot faster for GMail, iGoogle, and other google stuff get it at http://www.g … #
  • This is my second tweet using Chrome… get the Windows-only version at http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
  • There is no mac version at Chrome(it will be available soon) but Parallels is good for the mac (save $30 today, get Parallels at Maczot.com) #
  • When you go to a site that’s down Chrome will allow you access right to the Google cached version.. !http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
  • Time to fire-up Parallels… Chrome is Windows only… #
  • Chrome is awesome, but Wordscraper on Facebook still doesn’t work…Will Chrome stay beta forever… we are talking about a Google Product.. #

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Google Chrome-Acid3 Test

By on September 2, 2008

The Acid3 test (here) tests a browsers Javascript rendering ability in terms of being standards-compliant, for a reference Webkit scores 100, Opera scores 83, Firefox 3 scores 71, IE 7 scores 12, but you just get a mess (seen here), and Google Chrome (which uses the Webkit rendering engine (don’t confuse this with the browser “WebKit“, read more about webkit here) and a new javascript engine called V8-which boasts speed to kill, produces a 73 on the Acid3 test. Not bad considdering it’s the fastest to complete the test, but clearly Opera and WebKit (the browser).

@UPDATE- 9:35P

after doing some Google searching I’ve discovred that Google Chrome has scored from 61/100 to 78, this test is supposed to be repeatable, however it seems there’s some user-biased module to Chrome.  My finding was that Chrome scored 73.  That’s all I can say for sure.

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Google Chrome-What Browser Am I Using?

By on September 2, 2008

A common trick web developers use is to determine which browser you are using to assure that an incompatible browser doesn’t have a bad experience on a site, or to change the formatting to suit the browser (really common for Internet Explorer 6)… anyway I’m using the recently released Google Chrome (to download it: google “Google Chrome Download”, or go to www.google.com/chrome) and I tested Chrome against one of these scripts (the site I used is located here) and found that the script showed Chrome as Safari 525.13 on Windows.   Continue reading Google Chrome-What Browser Am I Using?

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