Rating with stars
This week we have added a highly useful feature to two of our most interesting sites. We have added rating of items with simple stars (grade from 1 to 5) to Slovenian chinese restaurants and to bestseller (both sites are in Slovenian language). In the first case of chinese restaurants the users can rate any restaurant they have visited. They can also post comments or written reviews for the restaurant. In the second case of a book store the visitors can rate any book they have read or bought. At the time they can only rate the book and can’t review it.
This was a set of small, but important features that invite the visitors to join the editorial team and help create or enrich the content of those two sites. We will be slowly rolling out this feature to the other bookseller sites we are running.
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Acid3 test results on all my browsers
Today I have decided to run Acid3 tests on all of my browsers that I have installed and use on my computer and my Android mobile phone.
Here are the results, which are, surprising, not that good. I would expect more of my browsers.
Desktop
Firefox 3.6.12 is my primary browser that I use the most and trust the most. It’s result was only 94/100.
Chrome 9.0.597.0 dev, which is my secondary browser, got the best possible result, that is 100/100. Unbeatable. Note that this is a development version of Chrome (not stable, not beta).
Firefox 4.0b8pre is my third browser which I seldom use but is a candidate for becoming my first browser got the result 97/100. I was disappointed by this result and I hope it gets better by the time they relase FF4, which will unfortunately not be this year.
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 is on my system because I need to test web applications and web pages I develop. At 12/100 I get the message from IE that it wants to run ‘MSXML3.0 SP10′ add-on. If I confirm, sort of iframe with some xml data is opened inside the test and the test stops at 20/100. If I don’t confirm the pop-up, the Acid3 test also stops at 20/100.
On my smartphone I am running Android 1.5 with the default browser. It got a pretty high result of 93/100.
I don’t really believe the IE8 test I took and that is why I have tried to simulate older IE browsers through a tool called IETester that I use for verifying developed sites for older IE browsers. The results looked very weird and hardly readable, but I think I got these results: IE5.5 got 13/100, IE6 got 11/100 and IE7 got 11/100. I have also tried IE8RC1 through IETester and it also got only 20/100.
It looks like the browsers still have room for improvement, at least on my systems. The winner is clearly Chrome which is great also for other browsers – just to let them see that 100/100 is not impossible to reach.
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