After extensive testing (and far too much coffee) here is our considered opinion on Google’s new browser.
It’s fast. Really fast. Except……
It is really slow handling Flash, which is almost as annoying as people who use Flash. Use it to check out this site if you have the patience. It was the fifth worst website of 2007 according to Vincent Flanders, whose site should be required reading for all web users.
It is basic. Really really basic. That is probably why it is fast, but….
It lacks a lot of the functionality we are used to – although remember it is beta, so nobody has had the chance to write any add-ons.
It scores higher on Acid 3 than Flock and renders very well.
To sum up, it is fast, simple and standards-compliant. As a browser it is good – very good. As a toolbox it is still beta so we won’t be moving away from Firefox in any great hurry, but the potential is there. Our hope is that this will sound the final death-knell for IE6 – see our post in the news section.
Whilst we will carry on supporting current IE6 users, for all new sites this carries an extra charge. And quite a large one at that. This reflects the extra work involved in dealing with legacy systems. IE5.5 for Mac is no longer supported – if you are using IE on a Mac, frankly you do not deserve a Mac.
It is going to be a long night. We’ve got our hands on Google Chrome and started testing. So far Acid 2 seems okay and none of our sites break, but ye gods the UI is ugly. Obviously it is still in Beta and lacking a lot of the functionality we are used to, but it seems to be very fast and the rendering is good. And man, is it bright – sunglasses just to look at it.
Today, we are going to play with and
tags, and the first thing we are going to look at is closure. Not the kind of closure your analyst talks about – something far more useful. Some tags – including – are ‘self-closing’. We saw in the previous tutorial the
and emphasised that valid XHTML requires that tags be closed. As always, there are little wrinkles, of which and
are examples. ,
and tags have the same properties, but we will get to those later. Along with some of the more complex meta tags.
The two main tags are:
both of which are reasonably obvious. The description is…. well, the description of your site, which will hopefully be what shows up when a search engine looks at your site. Keywords, however, are a different kettle of fish – they are the keywords you hope search engines will look at for finding your site. There is some debate over whether these actually make any difference whatsoever and which engines take any notice of them, but hey – if they do make a difference may as well put them in, if they don’t it is not exactly a chore. Try and make sure they match the content of your site – loading it with names of famous people and prescription drugs is pointless because everyone had that idea years ago. Which may well be why search engines tend not to pay much attention to keywords any more.
At this stage you may be wondering why we are going through all this. The long and the short of it: these headers (with slight modifications) are going to be on every page of your site, and replacing them on a large scale can be a pain. Get them right the first time and save yourself a lot of typing. Don’t worry – things get more fun in the next post. Honestly.
The general format for a self-closing tag is:
As there is no text associated with the tag, we can just close it as soon as we’re done, although there are exceptions to the exceptions. Either way, you have been warned.
Well, here it is – the Terucada Blog. Most of the Tech stuff can be found in the Howto section, but check the Resources pages as well – there is a lot of handy stuff in there.
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