HTML 5

HTML 5 provides many of the enhancements to improve our browsing experience. The following are links on the added features:

Application Caching
Summary of the features

One of the challenge, however, is identifying which browser current supports it. Thankfully, it can easily be found here.

m.www.yahoo.com

I recently received a complaint from a colleague that she is not able to get to the yahoo website:

http://www.yahoo.com

instead she was redirected to the following website:

http://m.www.yahoo.com

The first reaction from our helpdesk was that there could be a possible spyware on her computer. Mostly because others who type the following address were redirected to the following page:

http://www.yahoo.com/?nm=1

A quick search in Google quickly revealed that she was directed to a new interface which yahoo is testing. The frustrating part is the users are picked at random and are not given a choice to revert back.

The fix is to clear the cookie and the cache in her browser. Also her feedback was that she did not really like the new interface, she preferred the old one because:

1. To her it was prettier with the pictures that changes according to season. Like right now there is the Christmas greeting.
2. Everything is with one click.

I read comments from other sites and a lot of them did not like it either, even though Yahoo was trying to emulate Google's cleaner interface. I guess that is a lesson to be learned. One your user base is used to an interface, you should not just change it; otherwise you risk angering your loyal customers!!!

Review Google Chrome Browser

I realize that there are many reviews of Chrome already but I am approaching this as a programmer blogger.

Things I like about Chrome:

• It is fast.
• In some cases where I get timeout with either IE or Firefox, the page still gets rendered in Chrome.
  
• The incognito page is often handy when you want to do research and don't want to leave any trail on the PC of where you have been.
• You can open a set of book marks in a new window (similar functionality available in firefox).
  

Things I don't like about Chrome:

• When you perform compose in Blogger, it encloses the subsequent paragraph between <div> </div> tag. Both IE and Firefox does not add these extra tags.
• It does not have an option to undo close tab which you may have accidentally closed (this is available in FireFox - haven't noticed it in IE7 - not sure if it is there or not).
  
• If you want to have properly aligned table, you can enter your information into Excel and then paste in into the compose screen in Firefox and the data will align correctly. See examples below.
• Assuming you have your photos in Flickr, you can switch to view source and search for <img src="http://farm When you do that in Firefox, it will highlight and select the text for you. In Chrome, the text is selected but not highlighted. (I do this because I upload my images to flickr and then display them in my blogs).
  

Pasting from Excel into Blogger compose screen:

This is how the excel looks like:


Using Firefox:

Date	Mileage	time
1-Jan-08	10	1 hr
2-Jan-08	5	0.5 hr

Using IE:

Date
Mileage
time
1-Jan-08
10
1 hr
2-Jan-08
5
0.5 hr

Using Chrome:

Date Mileage time 1-Jan-08 10 1 hr 2-Jan-08 5 0.5 hr