Email conversation
| From | Daniel Drucker |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | possible to hide outliers from your graphs? |
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| Date | 27 May 2006 00:11 |
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Some of the graphs on your speed comparisons are made useless because of the
few extremely slow extinct-browser outliers which compress all of the modern
browsers into tiny fast slivers. It would be useful if there were a way to
hide those old browsers and thus make it possible to actually compare modern
browsers against one another on the graphs.
Daniel Drucker
| From | Me |
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| To | Daniel Drucker |
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| Subject | Re: possible to hide outliers from your graphs? |
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| Date | 27 May 2006 17:11 |
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Daniel,
> Some of the graphs on your speed comparisons are made useless because of
> the few extremely slow extinct-browser outliers
The funny thing is that the worst offender, iCab 3, is not an old browser.
It is in fact one of the most modern available, with current releases, very
high levels of CSS and scripting support, and a very complete set of user
features. It's just very slow ;)
> were a way to hide those old browsers
You can now Shift+Click or Alt+Click any browser you want to exclude.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | Daniel Drucker |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: possible to hide outliers from your graphs? |
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| Date | 27 May 2006 18:38 |
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Thanks for the quick response! I mostly wanted to reassure my wife that our
recent move to Camino wasn't completely ill-advised, and I've now done so.
(You planning on including the latest Camino soon, btw?)
I really wanted to move to Opera, but Opera's javascript support is just
"too strict" - i.e., most people's code is too sloppy, and Opera isn't
forgiving enough. Opera needs to learn to follow the sage words of Postel:
"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."
Most of my favorite sites don't work at all in it.
[Ed. Opera actually is one of the most flexible when it comes to scripting,
supporting both standards and common extensions. More often than not,
problems like these are caused by dumb sniffer scripts, not by Opera's
handling of JavaScript.]
Daniel