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Sometime about six months ago, I stopped using Firefox as my everyday web browser and switched to Google Chrome. Why? Because it’s fast, like browsing the internet on a rocket ship. My personal productivity suite includes a lot of Google applications (Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Docs, Voice, even a little bit of Wave every now and then), and their browser is just better optimized for the kinds of scripts those apps run. I still think Firefox is the most solid web development platform available, but if I’m not working on a web project I’m using Chrome instead.

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Javascript sucks. I mean it really sucks. It sucks to code and it sucks to debug, it’s clunky, and the notion of Javascript cross-browser compatibility is a joke. I often ignored Javascript altogether in my early days, using the classic “well, a lot of users turn it off, so what’s the point?” argument to cover my ass. In the face of the latest W3Schools statistics, however, it’s clear that excuse no longer holds water—as of January of 2008, the W3C claims that up to 95% of their visitors are supporting Javascript in their browsers.

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