I can’t wait until IE6 is basically obsolete
It may not be a big deal for you, but in the world of web development IE6 (aka Internet Explorer 6) gives everyone a number of headaches, actually it is more the fact that there are multiple IE versions being used simultaneously. It’s a blessing that IE5 is now fully obsolete.
It’s awesome to look at the statistics of browser usage put out by W3C each month the progression over the year has been interesting to follow. Some big highlights is that IE5 is now obsolete, and taken out of statistics, and Google Chrome has been added.
| Date | IE7 | IE6 | Chr | Fx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 08 | 26.9% | 20.2% | 3.0% | 44.0% |
| Sept 08 | 26.3% | 22.3% | 3.1% | 42.6% |
NB: Chr – Google Chrome.
| Date | IE7 | IE6 | IE5 | Fx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 08 | 26.0% | 24.5% | 0.1% | 43.7% |
| Jul 08 | 26.4% | 25.3% | 0.3% | 42.6% |
| Jun 08 | 27.0% | 26.5% | 0.5% | 41.0% |
| May 08 | 26.5% | 27.3% | 0.7% | 39.8% |
| Apr 08 | 24.9% | 28.9% | 1.0% | 39.1% |
| Mar 08 | 23.3% | 29.5% | 1.1% | 37.0% |
| Feb 08 | 22.7% | 30.7% | 1.3% | 36.5% |
| Jan 08 | 21.2% | 32.0% | 1.5% | 36.4% |
Source: W3C Browser Statistics
Apathy@Heart
Aren’t we really apathetic at heart? The little things we pass off, when we walk past the beggar in the streets, or ignore the street person asking for a dollar. We don’t really do nothing, instead we ignore, we put it out of our mind. We say ‘it isn’t our job’, or ’someone else will…’.
Maybe that is a contributing factor to why onehitwonder.org hasn’t been a monetary success (I think they are successful don’t get me wrong – but 7,000+ isn’t 7,000,000+) Maybe there are other reasons too, but overall do we think, ‘it’s only a dollar so, I couldn’t be bothered’, ‘there are heaps of other people who will pay it’..?
onehitwonder also relies on creating awareness by communicating with your friends, getting them onboard and creating a rollon effect, maybe this is where we find our apathy showing through, it isn’t in giving but in sharing.
Maybe you disagree, let me know, I want to know ‘why?’. If you agree I want to know ‘why?’ too.
Email == snail-mail?
I’ve started reading this book about future trends, it’s called Future Files by Richard Watson. I got halted mid-introduction while looking at a diagrammatic representation of the next 50 years, both in innovation and extinction of current innovations, and I had a total light-bulb moment after seeing the prediction of the extinction of email in the next 10 years. Whether it is in the next 10 years or not, I’m not too concerned about that, but by seeing that I realised that while email has replaced snail-mail in the last 10 years, it in turn has become snail-mail!
In the last couple of years with the rise of the use of instant messaging and the use of PDAs/smart phones at work (and home), comes the ever increasing availability to the masses (e.g. your boss and other such persons). It is because we are so accessible (and that we often receive too many emails, many of which are just notifications or what I like to call ‘legitimate spam’) that email is often too slow. It is the slowest of communication mediums at the moment, and currently one of the most formal. I call it formal as I believe it has replaced traditional means of communication for things such as bills and other important communications.
What will be the next step in communication, is it the total replacement of telephones, the removal of land-line networks? How will the telecommunication industry counteract the increasing trend of getting rid of the home phone? Will plan prices drop? Or will mobile communication and IP telephony increase? I’m hanging out for the time when no one has a home phone, but maybe that will never happen. I know I number of people that have replaced their land-line for an IP phone over a naked connection.
I can’t wait for the future, it’s all so exciting!
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