Posts in rant Category

Oct 29, 2010

IEx+1 Will Always Be IE6

IE has been the bash-up browser for quite some time. Every other browser gets things right. Now IE9 seems to have the right start, but I wonder that it will still be the IE6. [Continue]

Oct 14, 2010

Is Microsoft Getting Insecure About Office?

Microsoft has posted a video of testimonials criticizing OpenOffice. I do believe that some users can have problems with OpenOffice because they think that it is a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office, the same problem that has plagued Linux since its appearance. I use OpenOffice, as a different office suite with its own feature sets, like excellent support for ODF and one-click PDF export. [Continue]

Oct 5, 2010

More Gadgets …

More and more gadgets are being thrown at you in more and more forms. More possibilities and more options. More devices to do the same thing, whether its chat or email or photos or videos. [Continue]

Jul 8, 2010

Patent Scares

You never know if you are free to use the solution you have come up with yourself. This is discouraging and can be extremely frustrating. But this is what patents can do. [Continue]

Apr 3, 2009

Just Write The Software And Give It To Us

“We have found out what the software should do for us. Here are the requirements, which we know you will ask for; and here is the systematically documented design specification!”, says the client. “All you have to do is write the software and give it to us!!”. [Continue]

Mar 15, 2009

Being Compatible With IE8′s Compatibility View

IE8 is almost like two different browsers – one in the backward compatibility mode, and the other in standards compatibility mode. The unfortunate part is the IE8 using the compatibility view is not the same as its predecessor IE7. There is a good news that IE8 is CSS 2.1 compliant and that it does offer a standards mode. [Continue]

Feb 16, 2009

IE8 To Have Compatibility View To Beat The Standards

Microsoft seems to be hell bent on making the standards secondary in the name of compatibility. Not a while back, Microsoft had agreed to use the standards mode by default for IE8 after many had opposed the degradation. If enough users vote a site into IE7 compatibility mode, it will be displayed using that, even if it was built using the standards. [Continue]

Feb 10, 2009

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem In India

Sramana Mitra has a good discussion going on about what is lacking in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India. Contribute to the discussion, we need more such pieces to bring about a change. Here are my thoughts. [Continue]

Feb 4, 2009

Our Rs. 500 Laptop Is Not A Laptop After All

The wait for our Rs. 500 laptop is over, because it is not going to be a laptop after all. It is being called a computing device. [Continue]

Nov 17, 2008

We Need Firefox Inside!

How do I convince these sites that I do use Firefox? It gets called something else because of some stupid reasons, but it is really Firefox and nothing else. Every time I visit hotmail or orkut or some site which thinks that it is doing something so special that it needs to warn users about their browsers, these messages that make a mockery of my setup. [Continue]