Top 100 Web Applications
The community of Webware.com recently voted their top web applications in 10 categories. There were almost half a million voted and the results has been announced. The following are the top winners for each category.
- Browsing : Firefox
- Communications : Gmail
- Community : Gaia
- Entertainment : Stardoll
- Media : Youtube
- Data: Google
- Mobile : Gmail Mobile
- Productivity and Commerce : eBay
- Publishing: Wordpress
- Reference: Wikipedia
I’ve never heard of Gaia and Stardoll before but the latter is interesting, well not for me lah, for my wife. I’ve forwarded her the site already and she has already dressed up Tyra Banks. It’s an online version of dress-up dolls, I think Nick’s wife will enjoy it too.
See the full list of winners here. Check it out, you might find some new interesting sites too.
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June 20th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Hmm I thought most people are still using IE. Well, that’s a good sign. Firefox rocks!
June 20th, 2007 at 10:44 am
FF ftw!,
IE - i stay away from this, Opera - not bad, Flock - doesn’t feel right, Safari on Windows (yucks hahah) ..
June 20th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
For me it’s Firefox or nothing !
June 20th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Firefox is a must….. IE is a great no no…
June 20th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
IE, what’s that? It’s sooo yesterday la dat one. No offense to those who still use it ya. Peace!
June 21st, 2007 at 8:27 am
currently i’m using mozilla firefox…but there is still a bug compare to IE….if yo’re a programmer like me, you can easily see it especially in displaying ur SQL data using PHP….
June 21st, 2007 at 9:38 am
Leo - what bug is that?
June 21st, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I have encountered bug in FF when dealing with ajax with popup or IFrame and a few special cases which there are always workarounds. Also if u have so many library from *cough* ajax frameworks included into your page (which is not healthy), thickbox, protoype, json, u will face weird effects.
Always use the correct document type definition when comes to how u wanted it to display. Practice well crafted markups in the first place. Web developers are the one who took all the burdens of most incompatible browsers around because of what they call ‘browser wars’. As the developer, we do not have choices. We need to install every browser in the market, test the output and if it looks weird fix it or seek for hacks, etc
Just my (int)0.9 cent
June 21st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
yep sunsuron, true, web developers are the ones who’s suffering from all these incompatibilities… even css also have to use many hacks.. now we have safari again *sigh*…
but for me, when i design, my priority goes to IE users first as majority of users still uses them and, most importantly, my bosses and clients uses them too.. after already pass my deadline, then i find the hack for FF… kekeke…
June 21st, 2007 at 6:26 pm
MrBadak…try the system that i created with both Mozilla Firefox and IE…here’s the system…
http://www.jpa.gov.my/smp/user_index2.asp
you’ll see the different….i try many times to fix it….same as you, i use iE as the my first priority as most of my users are using IE….
June 21st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
IE?? As soon as version 7 came out, I have lost all hope of designing for that browser and focused more on developing for FF. Besides, most of my development uses PHP-based systems, which in turn is best supported by non-IE browsers.
I DESPISE IE7!! >
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:45 am
Urm.. php is a server side programming language which has nothing to to with presentation. You dump data through http to the server, let php process it, dump back the output. Your markups and your cascading style sheet is the one that responsible for how you want to present the data that being processed by php before.
The different technology and philosophy among major browser’s vendors that made (x)html + css + javascript + dom a nightmare. Common example is the setAttribute() which is pain in the ass for IE.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
The PHP-based systems I’m talking about here are the open source CMS and ones similar to it. Open source developers of these major systems are well-known for developing CSS layouts that are as close to the standards as possible. Leave it to IE with their proprietory standards and break the ones that are supposedly agreed over by the standards majority.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Leo,
Actually u have 2 error in that page (http://www.jpa.gov.my/smp/user_index2.asp)
1st - yup da table doesn’t look good, that’s depends how u echo da table..
2nd - select statement, something error with the searching. Try this one, fill in the searching box with data like ‘leo’, once the result view, go back to the first page and click the other division, now u have that error, all the result look same…