No updates on "Hamster's Wheel" today I'm afraid. I acctualy did some work on it, fixed few bugs, optimised the code a bit but nothing interesting for you too see. Oh, yeah, you can now place a (wooden)crate you carry around on another crate but that's too minor change for a update in my opinion. When I do some more work on it I'll upload it here. Game tracking convinced me to do it before it's finished.

Now, onto the main subject: browser wars! Not trying to start a flame war here, just commenting the pool results. Yes, the one on D64, you do know it's there?

So, let's start:

Opera, 18 votes (10.17%) - I'm a bit dissapointed here as Opera is my favourite browser and I use it all the time. I expected at least 20-25%. OK, moving on.

FireFox, 91 votes (51.41%) - I don't know what everyone see in it. I have it installed on my computer, but it's only for testing purposes (when making a website) and a single extension (for downloading videos from YouTube, GoogleVideo etc.). It's just… bare. There's nothing special it can do without extensions (except for tabs, but there's nothing special about that). I prefer Opera, with bunch of features it works very fast, and I know people who tryed to extend FF to reach Opera's functionality, and they say FF slowed down to a crawl. Extensions are cool but I can live without them. I don't hate it, I just don't like it. Period.

Internet Explorer, 60 votes (33.9%) - Now, THIS is something I didn't expect. 1/3 64D members using IE? No, I don't hate it because it's M$, I don't hate it because it's so tightly integrated with Windows it's impossible to remove it (OK, it is, but let's not go there now), I can even forgive security issues (a good AV and FW should take care of that), but I have to draw a line somewhere. First, it butchers CSS

standard adding some of it's own "IE only" thingamajings (ok, Netscape did it too), then it blocks JavaScript and ActiveX controls by default (attempt to cover up it's security issues), adds popup blocker YEARS after other browsers, and we won't see tabs until IE 7.0 is released. Some kind of shell (Crazy Browser, Avant Browser…) can improve it, but it's still (good?) ol' IE. I just expected that people that come here can see it sucks. Well, some apparently can't. Enjoy your browsing….

Other, 8 votes (4.52%) - I won't comment much on these. They're probably Netscape or some kind of IE shell (and that's NOT a browser, it's a SHELL, it's still IE!). I don't think people that come here use Linux or Mac, but I may be wrong.

So, let the <strike>flaming</strike> commenting commence!

EDIT: hehe, "commenting commence" [:P]