Oh man- like I need another excuse to keep me form doing my pushups!
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Wolfram|Alpha, now in soft launch state, is showing sweet HAL references as overload indicators.
A nice new Twitter 404 image. These guys really do it up classy.
Well-known industry trender, Netcraft, has recently observed a spike in popularity of the Lynx web browser- particularly since the recent Pwn2Own competition.
Apparently growing concern over vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari are driving users to the hardcore Lynx browser.
“Lynx has not once suffered a buffer overflow in its image processing, and indeed has suffered no security vulnerabilities at all in the last 2 years.”
More details (and laughs) on my favorite April fools story of the day over at Netcraft in “Deluge of Browser Security Issues Drives Mass Migration.”
DSL Reports posted an interesting article “Broadband May Kill The Game Console Wars” which talks about the possibility of gaming in the cloud. An fascinating item that I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere.
Props to the folks over at Hootsuite. Their 404 page was great, but the “fail whale” page is better! Nice to see someone acknowledge a tech issue.
Thanks to David Steinberger for the grab.
Earlier today, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8. This is their first major browser release since 2006. Among the features are better standards support, increased speed and an attempt at feature parity with other modern browsers.
Oddly enough, Safari 4, Google Chrome and the Firefox 3.5 have all posted performance statistics showing that they are faster than IE 8. It’ll be interesting times as we all likely move to a third IE style sheet for modern standards-based layouts.
Sweet 404 page over at HootSuite. I guess we’re there because “[We] like 404 pages”
404 Fowl Not Found
Perhaps you are here because:
• The page has moved
• The page no longer exists
• You were looking for a puppy and got lost
• You like 404 pages
Thanks to David Steinberger for the grab.
Apple has just released Safari 4 beta for both Mac and Windows.
Innovative new features in Safari 4 include:
Top Sites, a display of frequently visited pages in a stunning wall of previews so users can jump to their favorite sites with a single click;
Full History Search, where users search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages to easily return to sites they’ve seen before;
Cover Flow, to make searching web history or bookmarks as fun and easy as paging through album art in iTunes
Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with easy drag-and-drop tab management tools and an intuitive button for opening new ones;
Smart Address Field, that automatically completes web addresses by displaying an easy-to-read list of suggestions from Top Sites, bookmarks and browsing history;
Smart Search Field, where users fine-tune searches with recommendations from Google Suggest or a list of recent searches;
Full Page Zoom, for a closer look at any website without degrading the quality of the site’s layout and
Built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility; and
New Windows-native look in Safari for Windows, that uses standard Windows font rendering and native title bar, borders and toolbars so Safari fits the look and feel of other Windows XP and Windows Vista applications.
Apple really needs to spruce up their error pages. I know this isn’t a 404, but hey- it’s Apple!
