{"id":553,"date":"2009-03-04T16:28:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2009-03-04T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:28:17","slug":"upgrade-your-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/upgrade-your-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade your browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/browser_graph.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-554\" title=\"browser_graph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/browser_graph.gif\" alt=\"browser_graph\" width=\"310\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/browser_graph.gif 484w, https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/browser_graph-300x200.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a>Just a little rant. \u00a0I started my blog for a number of reasons. \u00a0One of them of course was out of pure boredom. \u00a0Another reason of course was so I could at the end of the year recall what I was thinking and what I had done in the past year. \u00a0A secondary reason was just as an experiment, both in this social networking world and just to view the behavior of web users. \u00a0The other day I was looking at my stats and I almost fell off my chair when I saw someone was still using Internet Explorer 5. \u00a0It was still only 4 visits, but man&#8230; come on.\u00a0 Upgrade your browser.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why should you upgrade your browser? \u00a0You don&#8217;t know how many times I&#8217;ve heard from someone that their windows machine is getting slower.\u00a0 (Disclaimer:\u00a0 I never mind helping out a friend with their computer and I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s their fault for it being slower).\u00a0 My first response of course is to get a Mac. \u00a0Then, the next question I would have is what browser are you using. \u00a0Let&#8217;s face it&#8230; Internet Explorer has a lot of security holes and it typically runs a lot slower. \u00a0I know that Internet Explorer 7 is a lot more secure and Internet Explorer 8 is suppose to be even more secure, but other browsers like Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are far more faster. \u00a0Some people don&#8217;t even know that there are other browsers out there.\u00a0 Of course, a lot of times, it does depend on where you browse to on the internet, so be careful.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason to upgrade your browser is the matter of how certain sites render. \u00a0As a web programmer, this one really is a pain. \u00a0I realize that, in order to be a good web programmer, I should make it work for all browsers, even the old ones, but do you know why certain very complicated website work still even with older browsers? \u00a0It&#8217;s because they had to do some hacks to make it render correctly. \u00a0The man hours behind that fix was probably high.<\/p>\n<p>My recommended browsers are Safari 4 beta on the Mac (with Firefox as a backup) and Chrome on Windows. \u00a0Of course everyone has their preferences and there are other browsers out there that people haven&#8217;t even heard of like Opera, Camino, etc. \u00a0I just happened to stumble onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/browsehappy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Browse Happy<\/a> site. \u00a0It&#8217;s a pretty amusing site on why to upgrade from Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, rant over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little rant. \u00a0I started my blog for a number of reasons. \u00a0One of them of course was out of pure boredom. \u00a0Another reason of course was so I could at the end of the year recall what I was thinking and what I had done in the past year. \u00a0A secondary reason was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}