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The Features That Make Each Web Browser Unique 132
from the what-a-boring-monday dept.
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Thank you for linking to print page It made me find the actual article and that is apparently 4 pages.
This is interesting in an article about unique browser features. Maybe a better article would go through features rarely known about. Like in Safari you can click the "reader" button in the URL bar and it consolidates multi-page articles in to a single page including the images. There is a Firefox extension called "repagination" to do the same thing. Given how much I see people complaining about multi-page articles, it would have been nice for this article to have covered this.
Similarly, Safari and some Firefox plug-ins allow the user to grab the corner of text input boxes and resize them, which is an indispensable feature once you've used it, but was also overlooked in this article.
> Similarly, Safari and some Firefox plug-ins
I think FF4 does that by default without plugins. At least it does for me on Linux.
I think FF4 does that by default without plugins. At least it does for me on Linux.
Funny. My plug-in became incompatible when I upgraded to 4, but 4 added the feature anyway, so I never noticed. I'm glad they finally got around to rolling it into the core application. It is certainly one of those things that benefits all users and should be a default feature.
Is IE9's touted energy efficiency really a feature that sets it apart from the other browsers? It really feels like Microsoft was reaching pretty hard when they released that data, much of which only showed that IE9 was only marginally more energy efficient on many of the tests than Firefox.
That's not really a fair comparison. How well does IE9 run on Android phones? Or firefox on WM phones?
To add the the ACs point, I use Firefox on my Nexus One, it's not like perfect, but it runs pretty well at this point, and certainly better than whatever crap it is that they bundled with Android. I get my tabs and everything is works fine. There are still some issues, but the progress has been just astonishing since I first installed it.
The Android browser has multiple windows, you just have to go via the menu to switch between them.
Even TFA says that they only claim it's more efficient:
"Here, Microsoft is leading the way, claiming that IE9 is the most energy-efficient browser. Of course, there's no easy way to test this assertion, even with an electrical meter because the computer could be burning electricity on some background task."
So why did they even bother putting it in there?
The entire article is garbage. It lists Songbird as a browser (when its really a media player using firefox's Gecko), it implies that other browsers dont have Jumplists on Win7 (hint, Chrome and--i think-- firefox both do), lists "email" as a unique feature of Opera, when Firefox came out of a project that had email et al, Firefox 4s sync is HARDLY unique in an arena with Chrome (and I assume safari and Opera have it as well), and Im pretty sure IE9 has a separate process per tab-- not just chrome.
Seriously, none of these are unique, except perhaps Opera's turbo caching and Chrome's SPDY-- and its a bit too early to tell if SPDY is going to take off.
While most modern web sites do not check for user agent, at least not to prevent access, there are a few that still are loyal to MS, so block non-IE browsers from accessing content. In a perfect world we could just all ignore these sites and let them fail, but unfortunately most of these sites are corporate and so much deal with them to keep our jobs. I was sad to discover that most browsers had removed this functionality, and that Safari
Opera's had that for ages. Literally 4, 5 or maybe even 6 "major" versions.
Firefox does it with plugins. Is it really that big a deal to go get a plugin to change the user agent?
Firefox does it with plugins. Is it really that big a deal to go get a plugin to change the user agent?
No, but it's far easier when it's already built in.
Firefox does have it built-in. You go to about:config and add a "general.useragent.override" string. Plugins just make changing it an easier and friendlier process.
And I find firefox would be easier if it came with vimperator by default. Both of these are things the average user will never need or want.
Yes. I hate plugins, they break regularly, especially with major releases, and they can be a security risk.
I'm not 100% against them per se, but, if a browser has a specific functionnality built-in, while another requires a plug-in... I'll tend to use the full-featured browser, instead of the plugin-crutched one. In firefox's case, the situation used to be very extreme, with plugins needed for almost any interesting feature that was standard in Opera (synch, mouse gestures...). I tried Ffox a handful of tim
Yes. I hate plugins, they break regularly, especially with major releases, and they can be a security risk.
I'm not 100% against them per se, but, if a browser has a specific functionnality built-in, while another requires a plug-in... I'll tend to use the full-featured browser, instead of the plugin-crutched one. In firefox's case, the situation used to be very extreme, with plugins needed for almost any interesting feature that was standard in Opera (synch, mouse gestures...). I tried Ffox a handful of times, and always gave it up due to incessant plugin updates, or plain broken plugins.
This was the issue I had with IE. It used to try to do everything, and as a result did nothing well, including your standard browsing. I preferred firefox where if I wanted so specific functionality, I could add it, but I knew the base functionality would work and work well. It's part of my problem with ff atm, it feels bloated and slow, which is why I use chromium.
Which leads to bloat. Certain things like greasemonkey, noscript and flashblock make more sense as add ons than they do in the browser proper. The bigger issue is that they haven't finished their extension sandboxing yet and that they make stupid decisions like taking away the status bar without really considering that most users have the space for them, and that it could easily be enabled/disabled from a configuration menu. I'd be curious as to who thought it was a good idea to make that text appear in the
I'd be curious as to who thought it was a good idea to make that text appear in the URL bar when you're hovering over a link. Thankfully they did end up backing down on that.
I actually had just started warming to the hover-url-in-address-bar feature when the next beta version removed it. It took me a fair while to start looking for addresses back at the bottom of the screen again. Come to think of it, it does kind-of make sense to have all URLs in the address bar.
>>>so block non-IE browsers from accessing content.
>>>Safari was pretty much the only one that had it build in
Opera has had user agent strings since the early 2000s. You can set it as Opera, or Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox, or IE/opera, or FF/opera.
I wouldn't blame the programmer for that, that's more a result of the fragmented nature of browsers. The people designing these sites aren't necessarily paid to test every possible browser version and type, I remember back years ago when people would have a hard time getting approval to test for Firefox.
The proper solution for that is to have a test suite that can make such determinations, unfortunately things are rarely that simple and I have a feeling that such an undertaking would be rather involved. Whi
>>>The people designing these sites aren't necessarily paid to test every possible browser version and type
They don't have to.
Just push HTML 4 or 5 compliant data, and Seamonkey and Opera will render it just fine. There's no reason for a site like mail.yahoo.com to refuse to send the information.
No, blame the programmer. It is bad practice to do anything related to the user string, as it goes against the concept of progressive enhancement/graceful degradation. The proper approach would have been to encapsulate any code that was "iffy" for support on alternative browsers with a construct like this:
if (navigator.geolocation){
} else {
This allows for support of fancy features in browsers that
I found it utterly bizarre that they highlighted this for Safari, when the Safari Reader feature, which pulls multipage articles down into one single readable page is *far* more interesting and unique.
Except the original article is spread over 4 pages, so someone's editor probably removed that bit on account of not losing advertising monies.
per usual. Opera Software innovates (tabs, spell-checking, syncing of bookmarks, turbo compression) and others copy.
>>>There was a time when Mozilla combined the email program with the browser, but it stopped this integration long ago.
No. Not really. Look at Mozilla SeaMonkey (direct descendent of Netscape Navigator/Communicator). It includes not just email, but also Usenet newsgroups, relay chat, and a composer.
>>>Safari 5: Easy user agent alterations
Opera has had this for years, allowing users to display sites as Internet Explorer or Firefox-compliant.
>>>Safari 5: Easy user agent alterations
Opera has had this for years, allowing users to display sites as Internet Explorer or Firefox-compliant.
I agree. I think Opera had this 10 years ago or something. Seriously.
pera Software innovates (tabs, spell-checking, syncing of bookmarks, turbo compression) and others copy.
Everyone copies from everyone. Tabs were in Omniweb (albeit with a slightly different implementation) in 1999. Spell checking should be implemented at the OS level and rolled out as a service to apps (as OS X does). Re-implementing it for every app is idiotic architectural design. Numerous browsers on OS X had spellchecking before Opera (since 2000) and they have grammar checking as well. Admittedly, Opera can't do a lot about the fact that OS's have failed to step up and implement spellchecking as a servic
Yes, Opera did it first but there is a difference. The encryption key Firefox uses is not stored on the central server and is client-side only.
Chrome's sync not only syncs all settings and bookmarks, but extensions and THEIR settings as well. I can download Chrome on any new PC and log into my Google account, and have everything exactly as my home PC, in seconds.
And so the size of browsers increases, until they all become unusable bloatware.
So long as its reliable, easy to use and isn't full of security holes I doubt many people give a damn about their web browser. Can you imagine an entire article about the relative merits of ftp or telnet clients? All most people want is for their browser to render pages properly. End of. If a new standard comes out and web sites use it then yes, browser should support it. Otherwise, apart from the browser developers themselves and a few fanbois, does anyone really care?
As importantly, does anyone care about browser speed? Most computers these days run 3D FPS games without batting an eyelid, the focus by chrome in particular on stripping off things to make it "faster" isn't going be noticed by anyone. Speed hasn't mattered since the 90s, so how it would be "key" is anyone's guess.
The rest of the browsers lack decent plugins that can remake the whole browser experience. You can turn it into a ten foot browser for your living room or make it easy to use for a sysadmin with vimperator.
I second that.
Never without Adblocking, Trackerblocking, Flashblocking.
I love how Chrome is the browser that gets the credit for coming up with the multiprocess model within the browser. I know that history is also revisionist, but it was Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 that first demonstrated to the multiprocess model in March 2008, almost six months before Google's first public preview. I'm sure someone is going to point out that IE doesn't isolate per tab (and neither does Chrome necessarily), but the model is the same, as are many of the implementation details.
Where Chrome do
Multiprocess was standard on early unix browsers - you opened a link in a new window it spawned a new process. It was only later that netscape switched to multithreaded presumably so the codebase was easier to port to Windows which as everyone knows has a piss poor process model and still can't even do fork() never mind sophisticated parent-child process interaction.
Multiprocess was also standard on the 1985 Commodore Amigas. Every program spawned a separate process (and sometimes - a whole new screen).
Multiprocessing was included with the first Amiga-Mosaic browser, but of course was disabled when mosaic was ported to non-multitasking Macs and IBM PCs.
That's odd, because one of the advanced settings in early versions of IE was to make each window run in its own process. I found it quite useful while testing things.
Of course the current version has a much more sophisticated model.
And Opera Mail is the quickest, easiest, stablest, safest and all-round lowest impact email client I've ever used. And that's coming from someone who's tried everything from Pegasus Mail through to the Mozilla horridness.
Search is instant-narrow, even over 8 years of email from multiple POP/IMAP accounts. Tag a message with a label, every similar message gets the label. Want emails with that label to appear in your inbox, or to be pushed out to a seperate "folder" or both? You can choose. Spam filter i
>>>integrated Bittorrent like any other download.
I've never been able to make this work. It opens the file okay, but then just sits there not peering to anybody? I think you're better off with a dedicated Torrent program, rather than the bloated ~200 megabyte Opera, especially since the dedicated programs use far less memory (utorrent fits in less than 10 meg of RAM).
Note: I'm using a 700megahertz/256meg laptop, so smaller is better for me.
It's worked fine for me in the past. Go to opera:config and check the Bittorrent settings. Normally changing the port helps with this.
In general, I agree and think it'd be better to just have a small program for each type of operation. The point Opera was trying to advertise was that normal users wouldn't have to muck around and install Torrent clients, their downloads would just work.
Also, I guess it'd be beneficial to useeverything (torrent, email, etc.) Opera offers if you're the type to leave your brows
Note: I'm using a 700megahertz/256meg laptop, so smaller is better for me.
Running Windows 3.11 no doubt. Or was that CP/M?
Must. Not. Make. Size. Joke.
Windows XP fits nicely inside 256 megabytes. It's not until you drop below 128 that it experiences hard drive slowing (due to memory swapping).
>>>The Opera installer is less than 8MB, and the installed size is less than 20MB
Don't give a damn. ~200MB is how much memory it uses when it's open and running, and that's the stat I care about.
rather than the bloated ~200 megabyte Opera
Um, what? The Opera installer is less than 8MB, and the installed size is less than 20MB. In fact, to check that it was still small, I just downloaded and installed the latest version, v11.10. Universal installer is 7.3MB, full install on an older Windows XP machine is 18.5MB, installed and started up in 17 seconds. Sorry, but it doesn't get much better than that.
Opera 11: Email
There was a time when Mozilla combined the email program with the browser, but it stopped this integration long ago. That era is back again, this time on Opera.
Disclaimer: I haven't used Opera 11.
Even though it's not an "official" Mozilla project, you can nonetheless continue to use an integrated web browser and email suite in the form of SeaMonkey -- it's been around for years and years. Hard to see anyone else make grand claims about email functionality.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ [seamonkey-project.org]
The Android version of Firefox on your phone can suck down all of the bookmarks, history, passwords, and even open tabs. Then when you're back at your desk, you can push back the changes you've made while you're typing on your phone.
And if you delete or edit a bookmark on on machine, firefox sync will replicate multiple copies! Except when it deletes them all, of course. Essentially its a write-only filesystem which occasionally truncates.
Every time I've tried it, FF sync has been an absolute nightmare. xmarks, on the other hand, actually works.
Finally I understand we must all bow to worship the mobile smartphone and ignore legacy platforms, such as everything else with a CPU in it. But... Is there anyone out there with access to O
"Before the Internet, there was a collection of nets, like Compuserve, Minitel, MSN, and AOL. Then the 'Inter' prefix was added by linking these nets altogether, and everyone was given the freedom to request information from any computer out there."
The Internet predates CompuServe, AOL, etc., and wasn't created by linking those walled-garden services together.
Typical kids book report of 2030, assuming our native language remains The Queens English instead of switching to textspeak:
Before the Intertubes, there was a collection of nets, like PSN, Qriocity, and PS3 netflix streaming. Then the 'Inter' prefix was added by linking these nets altogether, and everyone was given the freedom to request all credit card numbers stored in the playstation network, from any computer out there.
"Before the Internet, there was a collection of nets, like Compuserve, Minitel, MSN, and AOL. Then the 'Inter' prefix was added by linking these nets altogether, and everyone was given the freedom to request information from any computer out there."
The Internet predates CompuServe, AOL, etc., and wasn't created by linking those walled-garden services together.
It's mostly correct if you think of the internet in terms of its userbase.
"Before the Internet, there was a collection of nets, like Compuserve, Minitel, MSN, and AOL. Then the 'Inter' prefix was added by linking these nets altogether, and everyone was given the freedom to request information from any computer out there."
The Internet predates CompuServe, AOL, etc., and wasn't created by linking those walled-garden services together.
Ya, i had to send the writer of the article an email with links pointing out how wrong that statement was.
Don't they have fact checkers anymore? Sad part is, you don't have to read far on the wiki's of those to see how wrong the statement is.
In this day and age, is it too much to ask that a web browser have a built-in spell checker for filling out web forms? IE still doesn't have one.
Amen to that!
People use a lot of web based applications these days. A spell checker (and spelling suggestions) built into the browser seems like a no-brainer. Why the IE team continues to neglect such an easy-to-implement but yet invaluable-to-the-user feature is mystifying.
As of version 9, IE is starting to get interesting again, but missing such basic features still means IE is an undesirable browser.
Be careful what you wish for! I'm trying to switch to Chromium from FF because the memory hogging and CPU spiking in FF 4 is just nuts, but the spelling checker in Chromium based (so far I've tried Chromium and Dragon) is just awful! It seems like no matter how close I get to spelling the actual word it guesses a ton of things NONE of which are even close!
It reminds me of the old search engine they used on MSN, where you would type and it would guess these horribly wrong attempts, like "De"...uhhh...deviled
I'm trying to switch to Chromium from FF because the memory hogging and CPU spiking in FF 4 is just nuts
Personally I'm just reluctantly putting up with it and hoping they fix the horrible memory leaks soon. FF was eating ~720m of VM this morning when I killed the process and restarted it; it's now back up to 420m. This on a PC that only has 1g of RAM... pre-4.0 didn't have anywhere near these problems. I figure they'll get fixed eventually.
Thank you for posting that, I'm so very damned tired of getting told "it works for me!" when on my nettop with Anvir task manager I can literally sit and type in a simple text box like this and can spike the CPU simply by typing in a bog standard text box.
I mean seriously WTF FF devs? For me it started getting bad with the 3.6 branch and FF 4 is frankly unusable on anything less than a 2.8Ghz P4 with 1.5Gb of RAM IMHO and that is just insane! I'd hate to see what FF 4 is like on an Atom or netbook, as fra
It's just the nature of the update cycle... all the cool features end up being glitchy and buggy. Mainly memory leaks - those seem to be the last to be found and fixed. In the meantime, just restarting it daily is about all I can do. No different than Windows - one version is unstable and poorly interfaced with drivers (ME, Vista) and the subsequent version will have most of those kinks worked out and end up being a mainstay for a good long time (XP, 7 - I hope). With any luck they'll have the memory leakin
and I have know need for a stinking spell checker cuz I'm a wizzard and can check spell meself
Yes, browsers are very complicated. And so is programming for them, especially considering the bewildering number of browsers your code has to work for.
Now, if only browsers were more like virtual machines (virtualbox, vmware, etc.), then life of a webdeveloper would be much simpler.
Here's why:
- A webdeveloper could choose his own scripting language (of course, I assume here that the webdeveloper can simply pick a standard open-source scripting language; he does not need to build one himself, but in theory
If you met a developer of [the browser you like least] would you rant and rave at him, or just have a friendly chat?
I'm still pretty upset about IE 6. Probably not a good idea to let me in the same room with any of it's developers.
What do you think of the SPDY protocol [chromium.org], listed as Chrome's unique feature?
Even if it's faster, is it a good idea for the unity of the web Google to have come up with, and push this idea all on their own?
What would we think if M$ or Compu$erve had come up with their own protocol, to be accessed by their own application program?
What would we think if M$ or Compu$erve had come up with their own protocol, to be accessed by their own application program?
"Have they documented it?"
"Have they made an open sourced reference implementation?"
"Is the protocol royalty free?"
"Is there any indication that they are are going to drop/deemphasize support for previous protocols?"
IE9 runs only on bloated resource-hungry Windows, yet Microsoft still --- in an effort to find something, anything, positive to say about IE9 --- falls back on the current "energy efficiency" buzzword.
Funny, in a sad way. How far the once giant has fallen.
The answer, as I feared before and as I now know from experience: you can't. (Note: this is in the context of client-side applications designed to run in the framework of the browser -- and isn't referring to basic HTML tags, rendering, etc. All you "get off my lawn the web is about servi
As much as I hate to admit it, Adobe appears to have succeeded in reaching what HTML5 is still striving to attain: write once, for one platform. Run anywhere that platform runs. HTML5 might have a chance to catch up, but I am doubting it.
Flash has one crucial failing however, due to its proprietary nature - it's larely opaque to automated spidering. That means search engines can't categorise it properly; it's like with image galleries, you're largely reliant on user tagging which will always be of an extremely random (or even malicious) nature. Don't get me wrong, I've helped set up flash applications for intranet deployment, I do appreciate the cross platform power it can bring to the table, but I wouldn't recommend it to be able to stand
Some time ago I read a blog article somewhere stating that the current design of the internet is fundamentally flawed. The reason is exactly like you mention here, i.e., the standard is getting too complicated for any browser vendor to follow precisely, resulting in ever-increasing cross-browser headaches for web-developers.
What we need, and this was mentioned in that blog, is a much lower-level intermediate code which runs on any browser. Even lower-level than Java (i.e., without its own garbage collector)
Except that Opera has had sync for nearly three years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_of_the_Opera_web_browser#Opera_Link [wikipedia.org]
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Fri, Nov 11th 2011 6:30pm
by Mike Masnick
Thu, Oct 13th 2011 7:08pm
fox, hulu, nbc, news corp
Hulu's Owners Unable To Find Idiots Willing To Overpay To Take Hulu Off Their Hands Before They Kill It
from the tough-luck dept
So it comes as little surprise that Hulu has now announced that its owners are no longer trying to sell the company off. Instead, they'll focus on suffocating it from within. Well, that part wasn't mentioned, but watch what happens to Hulu execs over the next few months. I think it's likely that we're going to start seeing some departures of key people. Hulu was an amazingly well executed offering with a really capable team... but as we predicted, the fact that the only way it could really succeed was to cannibalize the business of its owners, almost certainly meant that Hulu would never be allowed to execute on the strategy it needed to become a massive player.
Of course, what the big TV companies still fail to recognize is that killing off Hulu doesn't stop the move to an a la cart, online driven world. It just means that when it comes, they will be even less relevant, and less able to capitalize on it.
by Mike Masnick
Mon, Oct 3rd 2011 3:01am
Filed Under:
free, online, open, tv
TV Companies Plan To Make Hulu Suck Even More Making It More Difficult To Sell Hulu
from the well,-duh dept
Because of the conflicts between what Hulu management (who do seem pretty clued in) and their ownership wanted to do with the company, Hulu was recently put up for sale. But, now it's coming out that the bids Hulu is receiving are much lower than the owners want -- and it's because they've made it clear they plan to cut off all free content from Hulu:
But the bidders all figured out pretty quickly that the TV companies who own Hulu now want to phase out free ad-supported content completely. So as soon as the current set of Hulu contracts expire in a couple of years, it would be back to the negotiating table.Because of that, no one was willing to bid over $2 billion -- and the TV guys (of course) think it's worth a lot more than that, even as they're trying to kill it. Well, one exception: apparently Google was willing to pay closer to $4 billion... but it would only do that under certain conditions (which likely involve getting the TV guys to renew/guarantee future deals). So congrats, backwards looking TV guys, not only are you killing Hulu, you're killing the goodwill you build up via the company so you can't even cash out on that.
by Mike Masnick
Wed, Sep 14th 2011 10:30am
Filed Under:
free speech, jerks, online, trolls, uk
Internet Troll Jailed In The UK For Being A Jerk Online
from the 4chan-/b/-just-got-worried dept
This is troubling on any number of levels. Most specifically, it's exceptionally worrisome when you base punishment on how someone responds to speech made by someone else. Yes, the comments were obnoxious and totally classless and uncalled for. But, whether or not they cause "distress" should not be the basis for judging whether or not they're legal. There are lots of things that someone can say that would cause distress, but that shouldn't make it illegal to say them. This certainly opens up a can of worms over just what kind of speech is so distressing that it gets you jail time. Either way, if you're from the UK, be careful what you post in our comments going forward. It apparently could get you jail time.
by Mike Masnick
Wed, May 11th 2011 9:18am
Filed Under:
movies, online, rentals
Why Does Hollywood Insist On Making Online Movies So Annoying?
from the simple-questions dept
Why does Hollywood insist on making online movies so damn annoying?If you look at pretty much all of the online rental options (with the exception of Netflix), the deal terms are almost always identical. Prices range a bit, but for big name movies they're $3.99. The rental term is 30 days from when you pay... but once you start watching, you only have 24 hours to watch. This particular limitation is particularly annoying to those of us who don't always watch movies in a single sitting or a single day (it's amazing how your movie watching gets fragmented once you have little kids).
Obviously, this has become the standard set of terms that the Hollywood studios are demanding, but these limitations are annoying and make no sense. Why put artificial limitations on offerings like this, making them less valuable and a lot less interesting? It also means that there's little innovation in the space. Basically, every offering in the space (again, with the exception of Netflix, who got grandfathered in with its unlimited model) is basically the same. The only innovation is around the device or the very front end of the service. There's no innovation in the actual model, which is a shame, because this "standardized" offering is really quite annoying and not at all compelling.
by Mike Masnick
Mon, Aug 16th 2010 9:58am
Filed Under:
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Freakonomics Flips The Window: Releasing Movie Online Before In Theaters
from the freakout-those-windows dept
So, it's quite interesting to see that the Freakonomics movie that's coming out in the fall is apparently going to flip the windows over. Sheri Candler points us to the news, as seen at the end of the movie's trailer, that it's going to be released via iTunes on September 3rd, and in theaters October 1st:
I'm curious about this, because what the Freakonomics duo are famous for is exposing how "the common wisdom" is wrong on a variety of things. I don't always agree with their analysis, but it would be fascinating to see if they're exposing that the common wisdom on movie release windows is -- as we've suggested for years -- totally screwed up. I am curious, however, to see how the theaters handle this. As mentioned, in the past, they've boycotted day-and-date releases, and even boycotted movies that they thought were coming to DVD too soon after the theatrical release (in that case, 12 weeks). So, will theaters be boycotting the Freakonomics film? I really don't know enough about how the film is being positioned, so if it's only in indie/art house-type theaters, perhaps it's not as big an issue. Still, I can't see any of the big theaters too happy about these "wrinkles," even if they actually prove that theaters can get more business with simultaneous releases.
by Mike Masnick
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 5:39am
Filed Under:
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Time For Sports Leagues To Embrace, Not Fight, Free Online Streams
from the don't-make-the-same-mistake... dept
Sport, like music and mainstream media beforehand, has a stark choice before its governing bodies. If they remain resolute in their determination to follow old-school methods of disseminating their product, they will quickly drown under the deluge of fraudsters and pirates all too eager to capitalise on their mistakes. On the other hand, if they realise that they have to adapt to financially survive, they need to move fast to prevent a potentially catastrophic loss of income.He notes that at least some leagues have figured this out:
The Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket games are broadcast live and free via YouTube, effectively heading off at the pass any rogue broadcasters seeking to steal their feed for themselves. The IPL authorities have a guaranteed income from their YouTube deal and, with a dedicated millions-strong audience subscribing to their feed, advertisers know how many people they can reach via the stream and how much each commercial slot is worth.But, of course, others have not:
Yet with all the signs pointing to a brave new world of online broadcasting, the industry dinosaurs continue plodding along the road to extinction. Premier League enforcers boast of their success in shutting down a handful of illegal feeds, but most online sports piracy goes unpunished. With mobile phones providing yet another alternative to television in the race for audiences, there is even more pressure on rights owners to be proactive rather than simply shut the stable door behind the bolting horse.In the end, it's difficult to see how any sports league thinks it makes sense to spend all this effort trying to fight against giving people what they want, when there are plenty of easy and lucrative ways to monetize such demand directly. It's too bad that so many leagues are slow to realize this.
by Mike Masnick
Tue, Jun 1st 2010 2:19am
Filed Under:
breaking, browsers, drm, kylo, online, tv
How Depressing Must Your Job Be If Its Focus Is On Breaking What The Technology Allows
from the soul-sucking-work dept
But when does Hulu get tired of playing this silly game? How do Hulu's own developers feel about working to ensure that their site stays broken for the "wrong" users? Do they not have one of the most degrading coding jobs in America? And to what end--so short-sighted suits can find new ways to annoy their customers?While it may seem like a random question, it could actually be a big deal. When Hulu first came out, one of the points that people made was that it really was put together by folks who understood the power of the internet. That is, they were "internet people" rather than "Hollywood people," which is what allowed the service to work well for many (definitely better than most expected). But, with the corporate bosses continually trying to limit what the site can do, you'd have to imagine that the developers working at the company must be getting annoyed. What kind of developer wants to focus on limiting what users can do with technology, rather than allowing something great? At some point, Hulu is destined to lose its best developers who just get sick of spending all their time breaking their product, rather than building something cool, useful and innovative.
by Mike Masnick
Fri, May 28th 2010 12:24pm
Filed Under:
harassment, online
Mom Who Used Son's Facebook Account Found Guilty Of Online Harassment
from the careful-what-you-post dept
Either way, Rose M. Welch alerts us to the news that the mother has been found guilty, told to pay $435, given a 30-day suspended jail sentence, and ordered to take both anger management and parenting classes. Clearly, what she did was wrong, though I do wonder if it really reaches the level of harassment. Some of the judge's reasoning also is a bit suspect. Part of the reasoning for the guilty ruling was that the mother had left messages on her son's voicemail that included curse words. The son is 17, so it's not like he hasn't heard those words before -- and the mother insisted that this was part of their normal joking banter. The judge, however, declared it "totally, completely inappropriate." Now, I'm not going to say that leaving voicemail messages to your children with curse words is a good parenting technique, but it still seems a bit extreme to use that as evidence of harassment.
by Mike Masnick
Wed, May 19th 2010 7:52am
Filed Under:
online, patents, software
microsoft, salesforce.com
Microsoft Decides It Can't Compete With Salesforce.com; Sues For Patent Infringement Instead
from the must-we-remind-you dept
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."Those days are long gone, apparently. In its latest patent litigation action, Microsoft has decided to sue Salesforce.com for infringing on a bunch of patents. Basically, it looks like Microsoft went through its collection of patents to find whatever they could that Salesforce might possibly infringe on. Take a look at the list:
- 7,251,653: Method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data
- 5,742,768: System and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu
- 5,644,737: Method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display
- 6,263,352: Automated web site creation using template driven generation of active server page applications
- 6,542,164: Timing and velocity control for displaying graphical information
- 6,281,879: Timing and velocity control for displaying graphical information (the 164 patent above looks to just be a continuation of this patent)
- 5,845,077: Method and system for identifying and obtaining computer software from a remote computer
- 5,941,947: System and method for controlling access to data entities in a computer network
Hopefully (though, unlikely), the Supreme Court gets around to issuing its Bilski ruling and puts software patents like these out of their misery. Here's the full filing for anyone interested:


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