I saw an episode of Yes, Prime Minister today. I haven’t seen this series in years, but it’s quite possibly both the most talky-talky and brilliant British sitcom. Whenever I see YPM, I’m reminded of Sir Humphrey demonstrating to Bernard how survey results can be cooked.
With this thought fresh on my mind, I ran into the Firefox vs. Safari link on Daring Fireball Obviously, feature charts are the same: The person developing them arranges it so their product gets the most checks. I decided to generate a more balanced feature comparison chart that would give Firefox and Safari an equal number of checks.
Firefox fan? Well, you probably won’t find this as funny as I do. You might even be deeply offended. But the thing is: I’ll still find it funny.
And for the record: I found Firefox 3 to be an improvement over Firefox 2 in most areas, but a major step backwards in complying with Mac behavior. I know they tried, but the closer (but definitely not perfect) appearance makes the poor behavior all the more jarring. But that’s starting to read like a review, and I’ll save that for a later post.1
- Or more likely never: the subject will probably be beaten to death by the time I get back to it. [↩]