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Chris Tate
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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 03:18
I am curious as to how diverse the browser selection is for game developers.

I use Firefox on my desktop PCs; and Chrome on my laptop. (Seems to work better on there).

What do you use?

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 03:28
I use Firefox aswell.

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 03:29 Edited at: 16th Sep 2013 03:29
Chrome on desktop and laptop, dolphin on my nexus 7.

occasionally links when I'm on a bad connection on my laptop.


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Firefox and IE10 whenever I have to do anything related to a Microsoft product.

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firefox for pc and android tablet, safari for ipad

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Firefox, only Firefox, although I do have an extension that makes it look like Chrome

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Firefox on all devices

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 10:33
Torch on Windows, Chrome on Linux.

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 11:39
IE10 on laptop (W7). IE8 on desktop (Vista).

I tried Firefox and Chrome but couldn't see what all the fuss was about - and I had to learn something new for negligible return. I like to keep things simple.

With all browsers our main problem is broadband line speed - < 1MB out here in the wilds.



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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 11:44
Chrome.

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 13:36
IE10/11+ on Desktop/Windows Phone/Surface Pro/Netbook/Laptop etc

And only FireFox/Chrome/Opera when testing websites before releasing them to client sites... otherwise have absolutely no reason to touch them...

Safari is just a fad now anyway... though I admit I did enjoy playing with it for a few minutes when it was still available... Sadly and fortunately Apple made it not important for me to test with it any longer ^^



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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 14:47
Quote: "Sadly and fortunately Apple made it not important for me to test with it any longer ^^"


How so?


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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 15:33 Edited at: 16th Sep 2013 15:35
Find me a download link on this page http://www.apple.com/safari/

And thanks to Bing I found this in their Site Tree http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1531

Last updated May 2012

They no longer bother with non Apple products...

To top that off the EU Browser Choice List no longer lists it as a choice...

So no more Safari for Windows

EDIT

Before you counter argue 'Well you could develop on a Mac', point there I do not have one yet... nor do I require one, but I do plan to get one in future... when I can be bothered...

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 15:34
I mainly use chrome on both windows and android. But ocationally I use firefox aswell. I also use firefox for debugging webpages since the developer options are awesome

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On the flipside there's no IE for Mac?

I use Chrome.


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Firefox

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 15:49
Quote: "On the flipside there's no IE for Mac? "


Who cares?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 16:39
Chrome - sometimes IE when @ school ^^

but yeah chrome - I have Opera too but i dont use it to surf, just to play Unepic (before it entered steam) and to read mangas that didnt like Chrome...

So yeah - Chrome <3



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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 17:11
Quote: "The latest version of Safari is available in Mountain Lion. The latest version of Safari for Lion is available through Software Update."

Click on Support -> Browse by Product -> Safari


I use Chrome 99% of the time along with my stylish theme for this site.

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 18:00
^shameless self-promotion

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 18:02 Edited at: 16th Sep 2013 18:11
Quote: "Click on Support -> Browse by Product -> Safari"


Nani?

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Quote: "^shameless self-promotion"


This made my day

Also my point was, there is no current Safari for Windows... it is almost 2 years out of date...

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 21:36
Hmm, not as diverse as I feared. Good point about the Firefox Debugger, it is brilliant for web development; better at debugging a web page than Adobe Dreamweaver!

Chrome is pretty slick for my laptop; you know, for a bit of reading and video watching, nothing fancy. Only thing is its disk space inefficient.

I started using firefox ten years ago because it was the only browser that supported tabs.

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Posted: 16th Sep 2013 22:53 Edited at: 16th Sep 2013 22:55
I use Safari on my phone, Stainless on my Mac, and Luakit on my laptop and desktop running Linux. Luakit is the best browser ever. Period. Ultra-lightweight, easily scriptable, and ridiculously efficient (Vim-style keybindings).

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 02:26 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 02:27
I used Opera until fairly recently but that seems to be going down hill so I switched to Firefox. I would recommend Chrome too.

I'm on GNU/Linux so I sometimes use Epiphany too. It's really lightweight and I quite like it but it does crash quite often.

Quote: "I tried Firefox and Chrome but couldn't see what all the fuss was about - and I had to learn something new for negligible return."

It's well worth the effort, and to be honest it's no effort at all. There are tons of great extensions that have allowed me to customize my browser to be just the way I want it.

Quote: "I like to keep things simple."

Firefox and Chrome can be as simple or complicated as you like. If simplicity is what you're after I would recommend Chrome as it's extremely clean.


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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 02:31
Quote: ""I like to keep things simple.""


Never assume

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 02:45 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 02:54


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IE is bad for browsing the web. It just don't want to support the web, the web must support IE. You need IE only to download other browsers.

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Firefox. It's been my favorite for a LOOONG time, but I did stick with Chrome pretty exclusively between its first release up until last year when it started becoming more sluggish and bogged down. I went back to Firefox and haven't really looked back, there's a lot more useful features in FF that I actually use!

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 04:11
A bit off topic; but are any non-english speakers using that TGC implementation of google translate? Is it working any good?

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 04:45
Chrome for me.

Quote: "You need IE only to download other browsers."

LOL!

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 04:48 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 04:53
Yeah I forgot to mention Mr Handy's comments are so true!

I remember when I was in fulltime web-design; most of my work was about getting things to work in IE. Only about 20% of your time was spent doing any web design.

Back in the day no true web designer could argue that he or she is not a hacker... Everything has to be hacked to work in IE.

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After awhile, supporting IE wasn't that difficult. Sure I had to add a few specific rules to handle IE, but it was a trivial matter and rarely consumed any extra time. Today's version I find I have to do very little if anything at all to support it separately. The biggest problem with IE I noticed is when site's don't specify a doctype, that's when things don't display like you expect.

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 07:38 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 07:39
http://css3pie.com/ PIE helps for the older versions

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You must be real good with web development Phaelax, judging buy your TGC forum theme. I found IE support development difficult; particularly with javascript effects, CSS and CSS2. But that is going back 7/8 years when J-Query wasn't all that popular..

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Quote: "A bit off topic; but are any non-english speakers using that TGC implementation of google translate? Is it working any good?"


I do not, mostly because I don't feel any problem with using english instead of swedish, in some situations, im even more comfortable using English. Also, the google translate feature is... google translate which is pretty terrible with grammar.

As for IE, from a user persepective, there isn't that many diffirences between IE and chrome/firefox apart from that it's a bit slower. But from a developer perspective, IE is a total pain. The problem isn't that IE has less features, everything that chrome/FF can do can be done in IE 10 aswell. But because microsoft don't seem to know how to make backwards compatible programs, a lot of companies are stuck using IE 7 or 8 which doesn't support any HTML5/CSS3 features. As a result, if you are developing a site for a wide audience, you may be unable to use any of the fancy HTML5 features what so ever, there are ways to do it with HTML5, but as far as I know, CSS3 is nearly impossible.

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 11:28 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 11:34
IE have no ad block feature, no user scripts, poor basic functions. Also IE stores bookmarks as files, so they have name length limitation!

IE is an out-of-the-box browser that you will use only to download a better browser or some software from MS site after installing OS (directx, dotnet, etc...). In windows XP it was really useful as it had windows update exclusive feature. Now it is just a wooden stool that pretend to be a leather sofa.

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 13:08
Quote: "It's well worth the effort, and to be honest it's no effort at all."


Is it? I've tried both Firefox and Chrome and just couldn't see the point. Each to their own I suppose.



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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 13:30 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2013 00:53
Quote: "I've tried both Firefox and Chrome and just couldn't see the point."

As I have said before. Bookmarks are the air of the Web. Here, try to bookmark this in IE and Chrome!

IE auto bookmark name: http--****.**************.com-post-show-3353762
IE manual bookmark name (taken from the page source code): touhou fujiwara no mokou yakumo ran kamishirasawa keine kawashiro nitori shuga (soranote) 1boy 3koma 5girls arm garter black hair blonde blue hair bow brown hair carrying child comic dress fire fox tail hair bobbles hair

Chrome auto bookmark name: touhou fujiwara no mokou yakumo ran kamishirasawa keine kawashiro nitori shuga (soranote) 1boy 3koma 5girls arm garter black hair blonde blue hair bow brown hair carrying child comic dress fire fox tail hair bobbles hair bow hair ornament hand on hip hat long sleeves mountain multiple girls multiple tails pants ponytail puffy sleeves red eyes short sleeves silver hair tabard tail topknot two side up village white hair wide sleeves yellow eyes | Sankaku Channel

P.S. this example picture on this anime image channel is safe, but the others are may be not!

EDIT: Hey, why forum detects w_a_f_u_k_u as bad language? It is japanese clothing So to post this message I had to cut it from Chrome bookmark name

EDIT 2: the example link was rushed by one rude person, so it was replaced to search link with same tags in title. It is a bit shorter because of Yandex limitation, and NOT actual web site link, but the original link was real and very long. Many image channels (boards) contain image tags in title, it is really convenient, but they all may be unsafe to kids.

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 14:27
Firefox on Desktop, IE on Laptop, Chrome on tablet, IE on Phone.

I like all of them to be fair.

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Quote: "But because microsoft don't seem to know how to make backwards compatible programs, a lot of companies are stuck using IE 7 or 8 which doesn't support any HTML5/CSS3 features."

Why would they be stuck with old versions of IE? I just assumed people were too lazy to update.

If this is the case why don't they just use a different browser?

Quote: "Is it? I've tried both Firefox and Chrome and just couldn't see the point. Each to their own I suppose."

I was trying to encourage you to give them another look, but whatever.


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Quote: "Why would they be stuck with old versions of IE?"


I think the problem with IE is the discrete versions you get which have to be uninstalled and a newer version installed, whereas with Chrome it's autoupdating and you don't even notice. I'm guessing this is more about workplace/school computers.


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Quote: "Why would they be stuck with old versions of IE? I just assumed people were too lazy to update.

If this is the case why don't they just use a different browser?
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This I don't understand. At work they insist on us using IE, we're getting a new phone system in that's internet based (don't know when, it was due to be ready to go in December), which only works in Chrome, so we'll get Chrome, but are forbidden for using it for anything else - IE will be used for everything else. Probably due to how IT has everything set up. However, IE used to keep freezing on my old computer (which is awkward when doing a pre-sales call to find it suddenly freezes). When I worked in an office for a recruitment agency it was the same, but on a lower spec machine, which made the situation much worse. When I did work experience for a newspaper, at least they were sensible and had Firefox installed.

On the bright side where I work they're gradually introducing Windows 7 PCs, I started using mine this week, the version of IE they've got is a lot better and it performs significantly better and works with everybody we need. Nice being able to use something a little more up-to-date.

Still, I love the fact the second hand store I worked in was still using DOS on the computers and Floppy Disks to network between them. To be fair, we never had any problems with the system.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 05:53 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 05:59
IE still lives on in great numbers because of companies and because it's already installed. And some scripts (usually for in-house sites) built for IE6 don't like to work with anything else. As a result, other browsers aren't allowed to be installed (or users just plain don't have permission to do so).

Fortunately, I don't see activeX scripts as often online anymore as I used to, so hopefully all this IE-only crap within companies will soon die out.

Quote: "As I have said before. Bookmarks are the air of the Web. Here, try to bookmark this in IE and Chrome."

Handy, why did you have to link us to an anime porn site? I don't want to see cartoon titties

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I can't wait to see what happens after April 8 2014 (when Microsoft cuts support for XP).
I have been temping at a telecoms company and every PC in the building runs XP! You'd think a tech company would be more up-to-date.

Every Blockbuster store in the country (if there are any left!) still uses the original DOS-based system written for the company in 1985! It got the job done but it was horrendously slow and laborious to operate.


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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 10:36
Quote: "I can't wait to see what happens after April 8 2014 (when Microsoft cuts support for XP)."


Just because support is cut doesn't necessarily mean it won't work anymore, you just don't get any updates.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 11:05 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 11:22
Quote: "Handy, why did you have to link us to an anime porn site? I don't want to see cartoon titties"

The image I posted was safe. I don't take responsibility on your own actions on any site, especially when a warning has been posted which you ignored. And that is not porn site, that is imageboard of anime site. I take anime wallpapers there. That was a good example as it have lots of tags in page title. If you can provide a better example I will replace mine with it.

Quote: "I think the problem with IE is the discrete versions you get which have to be uninstalled and a newer version installed, whereas with Chrome it's autoupdating and you don't even notice. I'm guessing this is more about workplace/school computers."

The main problem of IE that if you want a newer version - you must get a new OS!

What is a new version? New version is a support of the web latest standards.

Maximum versions for OS:

Win 7,8 -- IE 11
Vista -- IE 9
XP -- IE 8

So basically a newest browser will cost you a price of Win7, even if you don't need (or it is not suits your business) a new OS. Nuff said.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 13:35 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 13:39
It is really interesting how many major companies are still using DOS based terminals. It is 2013!!!!???. What is going on? What is up with these IT Managers? Why are they training staff to use 30 year old technology? Why not make use of the experience they have of modern UI standards? Why not utilize a mouse? why not utilize a toolbar component? a ribbon component, windows shortcuts... would these not improve working performance in this financial climate?

Does anyone have an experienced answer? Is it because it is cheaper to keep the old system than to replace with a new one?

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 14:19 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 14:20
Quote: "Does anyone have an experienced answer? Is it because it is cheaper to keep the old system than to replace with a new one?"


In the second hand store I worked in, they said to upgrade they'd need new computers, new software and said it would be costly to set up, the manager suggested it'd cost £4000 to set up, he felt as the system they had worked, it wasn't worth the money to upgrade it. He had one of these, "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" attitudes.

Of course, we did have some non-DOS computers, one for research on how much items are worth and one for doing accounts. All customer related data? DOS & Floppy Disks. In all honesty, we never actually had a problem with that system - it was effective enough.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 14:21 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 14:22
Quote: "It is really interesting how many major companies are still using DOS based terminals. It is 2013!!!!???. What is going on?"


In some cases I imagine it is a "if it ain't broke..." situation. I mean, I imagine there are some tasks that really wouldn't benefit from a GUI or mouse... in fact, a mouse tends to slow us down relative to a keyboard for basic functions (the main advantage is ease-of-use).

I use Safari as my primary browser on most of my devices, Firefox on my (often ignored) Linux box and IE10 on my (slightly less often ignored) Windows box.


EDIT:
Quote: "He had one of these, "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" attitudes. "


Beat me to it
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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 14:35 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 14:37
Manager was clever.

Quote: "use 30 year old technology?"

Everything has a purpose. If it suit the task, why it is wrong? Because it is not Aero?

P.S. according the thread title, someone using one browser for TGC and the other for the rest sites.

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