Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-23-2010

[andrewducker]

• How Does Homeopathy Work? A simple explanation.
  (tags: healthcare homeopathy skepticism)
• Microsoft release their new "Choose what browser you want to run" page.
  I like the way that the options change order randomly each time.
  (tags: browsers microsoft windows)

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Interesting. After Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE & Opera, I had never heard of those other browsers.

[andrewducker]

I'm deducting three geek points.

I'd heard of Flock, and I used K-Meleon before Firefox appeared.

SlimBrowser, Maxthon, Avant and Maxthon are all Internet Explorer with a different shell around them.

Flock is Firefoz with stuff on top. K-Meleon is Firefox with stuff taken out.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

K-Meleon annoys me by being one of those wacky misspelt names that I associate with US businesses. It was months before the penny dropped and I realized the intention is for it to be 'Chameleon'; when clearly it is named Kay Melly-on, presumably in tribute to jazz musician George Melly.

[andrewducker]

Did it also take you a while to spot the joke in "Central Perk"?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I spotted it a fair while before Phoebe did, which isn't saying much. But that's different!

[darkoshi]

Oh, chameleon; I didn't realize that was what the name was based on. I thought it was a strange name, which happened to make me think of melons.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

My point exactly!

I think the thing with all these wacky names is that they are geared to a US accent, or at least an understanding of the rules. Apache Solr, for instance, is just 'Soller' to me (at a push), and never 'Solar' -- probably works on the postvocalic 'r' those hick statesians use...

[andrewducker]

I guess I'm used to shortened words from years of 8-character file names. I happily fill in vowels and search for appropriate words.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

I don't know most of them (because I'm a GNU/Linux user) but Flock is what AOL recommend to ex-Netscape users - essentially a skinned version of Firefox with some 'social networking' extensions built in...

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even noticed the scrollbar...

Maxthon, whatever that is, can't use the spacebar and has a broken download page. And has pictures of iPads on their site but can't tell me if it's for OS X or Windows. The number of bad sites that can't even do the basics of marketing is astounding.

[matgb]

Exactly. And Sleipnoir proudly states that it uses Trident, the IE engine, meaning that it's the most compatible for websites.

Hmm, has there been an IE that passes the acid test yet?