Not only that trickery makes people confused, it also dilutes the brand integrity of Microsoft Live. Shame on you Microsoft Live, you are no better than those spam advertisers.

How about an advertisement that says “Search the web with Live.com”?
I am sure more people would be interested to use Live.com if they were invited rather than tricked into it.

Too bad, I was really looking forward to Goobuntu, despite the ridiculous name.

I’ve always wanted to switch to Linux but never actually did because I can’t live without my Adobe (and Macromedia) creative suite. WINE didnt quite work for me because I’d like to work with a software not fight it.

Read more about the Goobuntu hoax on the Ubuntu blog.

P.S. For those who are wondering about the new layout: Some readers complained that the old theme, called “Hemingway”, puts strain on the eyes so I decided to switch to a simple, clean layout.

I closed firefox and kept looking at the Task Manager and found out that Firefox is still running in the background but eating up less memory, but the computer is still unusually slow.

I closed the Firefox process from the tast manager and all the problems just went away in seconds. I’ve had the same problem over and over again ever since I upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.5

Am I the only one with these wierd problems?

UPDATE: I searched google and found these:
http://chuck.mahost.org/weblog/?p=1147
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175007152

Looks like i’m not alone on this one.

We need to add a formfield and an empty DIV tag. The empty tag is where the results show up. Now we need to make a function called Autocomplete. So add this where the Custom JS functions go.

function autocomplete() {
new Ajax.Autocompleter("autocomplete", "autocomplete_choices", "php.php", {paramName: "autocomplete", minChars: 1});
}

Here’s the final HTML:
autocomplete.txt

Ajax.Autocompleter is a built-in function of the Prototype library. The first param is the id of the formfield, the second is the id of where the suggestions will appear, the third of the php file where to make the request. The paramName is the name by which PHP gets the request and the last parameter is the number of character that needs to be typed before the process starts.

Now the PHP. Here it goes, i’ll explain later:
php.txt

First I created an array full of words. I used names of European countries.

Now note the $_POST … yes, that’s what we’ve put as the paramName in the Javascript.

So here’s the algorithm:

• Finding out the length of the string that’s entered in the formfield with the strlen function.
• Use a foreach loop so that each item in the array can be dealt with individually.
• Chopping off the words to the length that’s entered.
• If you entered “en” .. the length is 2 and the all the words will be chopped to 2 letters. France will become “fr” and England “en”.
• Matching the chopped word with the string that’s entered with the preg_match function. *
  “en” matches with “en” not “fr”
• Return the word that was originally chopped.

* Note: the string $entry is wrapped with / and /i … that’s for making sure that its not case sensitive.

The whole chopping thing is done to make sure that only words that START with “en” are listed. If that wasnt done, Sweden would also be listed. If you want it that way, make necessary changes.

Now its time to test. Open up index.html with your browser or just go http://localhost/whatever

You’ll see a humble text box. Enter something. Try E and you’ll see England and Estonia in a list. Neat!

Doesnt that look lame? Yup. Apply some CSS and make it cooler.

#autocomplete_choices {margin: -15px 0 0 -40px;}
#autocomplete_choices li {list-style: none; background: #fff; border-bottom: 1px solid #eee; padding: 2px;}
#autocomplete_choices li.selected {background: #ffb; }

Here’s what it looks like:

Wordpress.com doesnt allow users to upload files so im using Geocities. Im sorry i couldnt provide a live demo. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

What is Ruby on Rails?
http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6251

RubyOnRails Wiki
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails

Installing Ruby, Gems, and Rails
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/GettingStartedWithRails

Instant Rails
Instant Rails, a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. There’s no installer; you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.
http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/

Locomotive for Mac OS X
The Locomotive project is a quick start to Ruby on Rails development on Mac OS X, providing a sandboxed, no configuration, one-folder install of Ruby on Rails, SQLite, Lighttpd/Fastcgi, and much, much more.
http://locomotive.sourceforge.net/

Getting started with the Ruby programming language.
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000199.html

Ryby Docs
http://www.ruby-doc.org/

ONLamp – Rolling with RoR
Part 1: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
Part 2: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/03/rails.html

Installing Rails on Tiger – watch Tiger get Railed!
http://maczealots.com/tutorials/ruby-on-rails/

Rolling with Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X Tiger (for beginners)
http://www.tonyarnold.com/articles/2005/08/10/rolling-with-ruby-on-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger-for-beginners

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
This is one of the best Ruby tutorials out there.
HTML: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
PDF: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby.pdf

Ruby on Rails IDE
http://www.radrails.org/

Rails – what goes where…
http://www.slash7.com/articles/2005/03/06/rails-what-goes-where

Really Getting started in Rails
http://www.slash7.com/articles/2005/01/24/really-getting-started-in-rails

Cheat Sheets:
Rails files: http://www.slash7.com/cheats/rails_files_cheatsheet.pdf
Form Helpers: http://www.slash7.com/cheats/form_helpers.pdf
ActiveRecord: http://www.slash7.com/cheats/activerecord_cheatsheet.pdf

4 Days on Rails
Rails is well documented on-line; in fact, possibly too well documented for beginners, with over 30,000 words of on-line documentation in the format of a reference manual. What’s missing is a roadmap (railmap?) pointing to the key pages that you need to know to get up and running in Rails development.
http://www.rails4days.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Rails4Days.pdf

Nuby on Rails
This is Geoffrey Grosenbach’s blog, covering Ruby, Ruby on Rails, graphic design, and other good stuff
http://nubyonrails.com/

railz0r3d!!
http://www.mans.de/railz0r3d/

Exploring Ruby on Rails
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8217

Creating a small publication management application
A tutorial/walkthrough for making a bit of a more blog like application, using a couple of more advanced features.
http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/48

AJAX on Rails
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html

AJAX Activity indicators with Rails
http://mir.aculo.us/articles/2005/11/14/ajax-activity-indicators-with-rails-0-14-3
http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/2005/11/ajax_activity_i.html

More Rails+AJAX stuff on Ajaxian
http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/ruby/index.html

Making CAPTCHA
http://frankhale.org/CAPTCHA_RoR_Tutorial.html

Some nice Ruby language tutorials.
http://quickruby.blogspot.com/

Distributing Rails Applications
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/rails.html

Rails API guide
http://api.rubyonrails.com

A Ruby On Rails tutorial for many-to-many relationships
So far I’ve just glanced through this tutorial, but it appears to explain quite a bit how many to many relationships work in Ruby. Something you’ll need for any sort of real world application
http://jrhicks.net/96

How to build an AJAX-ed spellchecker with Ruby On Rails
http://deezsombor.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-build-ajax-ed-spellchecker-with.html

Rails FAQ
http://www.railsfaq.org/

ADVANCED

Sockets Programming in Ruby
http://librenix.com/?inode=7535

Monitor network traffic with Ruby
http://librenix.com/?inode=7502

Comparison: Ruby on Rails vs. J2EE
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-rubyonrails/?ca=dgr-lnxw16RubyAndJ2EE

Looking for a RubyOnRails CMS?
Typo is a lean engine that makes blogging easy. After you install Typo, a web-based admin interface handles configuration and management.
http://typo.leetsoft.com/trac/

Need help?
Sitepoint Forums – Ruby : http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=227

That’s all I could find. Let me know if you find more.

Pure JS Application libraries / Frameworks:

Prototype
Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

Homepage: http://prototype.conio.net

Documentation:
http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/jordan/pages/Prototype%20Library%20Info.htm
http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html
http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Prototype

Rico
Rico provides a very simple interface for registering Ajax request handlers as well as HTML elements or JavaScript objects as Ajax response objects. Multiple elements and/or objects may be updated as the result of one Ajax request.

Homepage: http://openrico.org/rico/home.page
Documentation: http://openrico.org/rico/docs.page
Demos: http://openrico.org/rico/demos.page

MochiKit
MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get things done, fast.

Homepage: http://www.mochikit.com/
Documentation: http://www.mochikit.com/doc/html/MochiKit/index.html
Demos: http://www.mochikit.com/demos.html

Dojo Toolkit
Dojo is an Open Source toolkit that allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript. Dojo provides components that let you make your sites more useable, responsive, and functional.

Homepage: http://www.dojotoolkit.org/
Documentation: http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/
Demos: http://dojotoolkit.org/examples/

Bajax
Bajax its a very small and simple javascript library to use Ajax on your pages. independent of programming language. You can put dynamic content using simple commands.

Homepage: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/bajax/
Documentation: https://developer.berlios.de/docman/?group_id=5319

Behaviour
Separate Structure (xhtml) from Behavior (javascript)

Homepage: http://bennolan.com/behaviour/

Solvent
The Solvent is a cross-browser AJAX application toolkit written in JavaScript. The Solvent is provided as modules or as an entire toolkit. The projects focus is to promote robust web applications and enable rapid web development.

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/solvent/
Documentation: http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=144164

Moo.FX
moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, written with prototype.js.

Homepage: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/
Demo: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/tests.html

WZ_DradDrop
A Cross-browser JavaScript DHTML Library which adds Drag Drop functionality to layers and to any desired image

Homepage: http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm

WZ_jsGraphics
High Performance JavaScript Vector Graphics Library.

Homepage: http://www.walterzorn.com/jsgraphics/jsgraphics_e.htm

overLIB
overLIB is a JavaScript library created to enhance websites with small popup information boxes (like tooltips) to help visitors around your website.

Homepage: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
Documentation: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/?Documentation
Command reference: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/?Command_Reference

Scriptaculous
Javascript visual effects, togather with prototype.js

Homepage: http://script.aculo.us/

SACK
Simple AJAX Code-Kit

Homepage: http://twilightuniverse.com/projects/sack/
Documentation: http://twilightuniverse.com/projects/sack/docs.php

Sarissa
Sarissa is an ECMAScript library acting as a cross-browser wrapper for native XML APIs. It offers various XML related goodies like Document instantiation, XML loading from URLs or strings, XSLT transformations, XPath queries etc and comes especially handy for people doing what is lately known as “AJAX” development.

Homepage: http://sarissa.sourceforge.net/doc/

Nifty Corners
A small library for making rounded corners with Javascript.

Homepage: http://pro.html.it/esempio/nifty/nifty1js.html

dp.SyntaxHighlighter
dp.SyntaxHighlighter is a free JavaScript library for source code syntax highlighting.

Homepage: http://www.dreamprojections.com/SyntaxHighlighter/
Documentation: http://www.dreamprojections.com/SyntaxHighlighter/Usage.aspx
Demo: http://www.dreamprojections.com/SyntaxHighlighter/Examples.aspx

AJAX.NET
Michael Schwarz, a .NET developer in Germany has released the latest version of his Ajax .NET Wrapper. This class library simplifies the use of XMLHttp by providing .NET objects that generate the necessary Javascript code.

Homepage: http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2005/04/07/397504.aspx

TOXIC
Toxic is an AJAX toolkit, or framework, for creating rich web applications. It handles the tedious and repetetive tasks involved in integrating a client created using html and javascript with a server backend. It enables client side javascript to directly call class methods in PHP5 (or any other suitable language). It also enables the server side PHP to directly call client side javascript functions. Using Toxic you can get rid of much of the tedious work in form intensive rich web applications.

Homepage: http://www.dotvoid.com/view.php?id=40

Plex Toolkit
Open source feature-complete DHTML GUI toolkit and AJAX framework based on a Javascript/DOM implementation of Macromedia’s Flex technology. Uses the almost identical markup language to Flex embedded in ordinary HTML documents for describing the UI. Binding is done with Javascript.

Homepage: http://www.plextk.org/

CPaint
CPAINT (Cross-Platform Asynchronous INterface Toolkit) is a multi-language toolkit that helps web developers design and implement AJAX web applications with ease and flexibility.

Homepage: http://cpaint.booleansystems.com/
Docs: http://cpaint.booleansystems.com/doc/

DOM-Drag
DOM-Drag is a lightweight, easy to use, dragging API for modern DHTML browsers.

Homepage: http://www.youngpup.net/2001/domdrag/
Tutorials: http://www.youngpup.net/2001/domdrag/tutorial
Demo: http://www.youngpup.net/2001/domdrag/examples

Tibet
Enterprise Class AJAX

Homepage: http://www.technicalpursuit.com/ajax.htm

Zimbra
Rubust AJAX framework

Homepage: http://www.zimbra.com
Documentation: http://www.zimbra.com/products/documentation.html
Demo: http://www.zimbra.com/products/hosted_demo.php

qooxdoo
qooxdoo is an advanced open-source javascript based toolkit. qooxdoo continues where simple HTML is not enough anymore. This way qooxdoo can help you to get your rich web application interface done – easier than ever before.

Homepage: http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de
Documentation: http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/section/documentation
Demo: http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/counter/refer.php?id=5

AJFORM
AJFORM is a JavaScript toolkit which simply submits data from any given form in an HTML page, then sends the data to any specified JavaScript function. AJFORM degrades gracefully in every aspect. In other words, if the browser doesn’t support it, the data will be sent through the form as normal.

Homepage: http://redredmusic.com/brendon/ajform/

ThyApi
ThyAPI is an api to allow the developement of better user interfaces for web applicaticions, Using javascript and Ajax, it allows a complete visual interface definition using CSS and encapsulates all objects data manipulateion.

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/thyapi/

Engine
Engine for Web Applications is an application framework for client-side development and Web applications. It provides an environment in which to develop and run JavaScript components and applications.

Homepage: http://www.imnmotion.com/projects/engine/
Documentation: http://www.imnmotion.com/projects/engine/api/engine_api.html

AJAXGear Toolkit
It is a toolkit that allows you to take advantage of the client-side technique known as AJAX. AJAX is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It uses the XMLHttpRequest object to allow a Web browser to make asynchronous call to the Web server without the need to refresh the whole page.

Homepage: http://www.ajaxgear.com

Interactive Website Framework
A framework for creating highly interactive websites using javascript, css, xml, and html. Includes a custom xml parser for highly readable javascript. Essentially, all the plumbing for making AJAX-based websites, with js-based GUI toolkit.

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iwf/

RSLite
RSlite is an extremely lightweight implementation of remote scripting which uses cookies. It is very widely browser-compatible (Opera!) but limited to single calls and small amounts of data.

Homepage: http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/main.htm
Demo: http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/techniques.htm

XHConn
XMLHTTP is a technology with which a developer can access external resources over HTTP from a static web page without ever having to reload the page itself. This library is meant to simplify and unify the code necessary to successfully send and receive simple data via XMLHTTP.

Homepage: http://xkr.us/code/javascript/XHConn/

Taconite
Taconite is a framework that simplifies the creation of Ajax enabled Web applications. It’s a very lightweight framework that automates the tedious tasks related to Ajax development, such as the creation and management of the XMLHttpRequest object and the creation of dynamic content.

Homepage: http://taconite.sourceforge.net/
Documentation: http://taconite.sourceforge.net/docs/jsdocs/index.html
Demo: http://taconite.sourceforge.net/examples.html

qForms
Great Javascript API for interfacing forms.

Homepage: http://pengoworks.com/index.cfm?action=get:qforms
Documentation: http://pengoworks.com/qforms/docs/
Demo: http://pengoworks.com/qforms/docs/examples/

JSPkg
jspkg is a package loader for Javascript, based on pluggable loaders for locating and loading scripts into a client-side Javascript application. It is designed to work best with unobtrusive Javascript libraries, but doesn’t impose any methodology or design on its users.

Homepage: http://jspkg.sourceforge.net/

Ajaxcaller
AjaxCaller is a thin XMLHttpRequest wrapper used in all the AjaxPatterns demos. The focus is on ease-of-use and full HTTP method support.

Homepage: http://ajaxify.com/run/testAjaxCaller/

libXmlRequest
The XmlRequest library contains a two public request functions, getXml and postXml, that may be used to send synchronous and asynchronous XML Http requests from Internet Explorer and Mozilla.

Homepage: http://www.whitefrost.com/reference/2005/09/09/libXmlRequest.html

SAJAX
Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Capable of stubbing calls to numerous server-side platforms: ASP/ ColdFusion/ Io/ Lua/ Perl/ PHP/ Python/ Ruby

Homepage: http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/
Demo: http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/examples.phtml

Sardalya
A small library for making dynamic HTML programming easy and fun.

Homepage: http://www.sarmal.com/sardalya/Default.aspx
Demo: http://www.sarmal.com/sardalya/Samples.aspx

X
One of the best javascript libraries out there.

Homepage: http://www.cross-browser.com/toys/

AjaxRequest
AjaxRequest is a layer over the XMLHttpRequest functionality which makes the communication between Javascript and the server easier for developers.

Homepage: http://ajaxtoolbox.com/request/
Documentation: http://ajaxtoolbox.com/request/documentation.php
Demo: http://ajaxtoolbox.com/request/examples.php

moo.ajax
moo.ajax is a very simple ajax class, to be used with prototype.lite from moo.fx.

Homepage: http://www.mad4milk.net/entry/moo.ajax
Demo: http://www.mad4milk.net/examples/mooajax/

PHP based AJAX Frameworks

AjaxAC
AjaxAC is an open-source framework written in PHP, used to develop/create/generate AJAX applications. The fundamental idea behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is to use the XMLHttpRequest object to change a web page state using background HTTP sub-requests without reloading the entire page.

Homepage: http://ajax.zervaas.com.au

XOAD
XOAD, formerly known as NAJAX, is a PHP based AJAX/XAP object oriented framework that allows you to create richer web applications.

Homepage: http://www.xoad.org
Documentation: http://www.xoad.org/documentation/source/
Demo: http://www.xoad.org/examples/

Zephyr
zephyr is an ajax based framework for php5 developers. you can easily develop business applications using this robust framework. this is extremely easy to learn and very simple to implement.

Homepage: http://zephyr-php.sourceforge.net/

PAJAJ
What is the PAJAJ framework, it stands for (PHP Asynchronous Javascript and JSON). It is a object oriented Ajax framework written in PHP5 for development of event driven PHP web applications.

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pajaj/
Documentation: http://www.wassons.org/pajaj/public/docs/index.php

Symfony
A PHP 5 Development Framework inspired by Rails. It has integrated database abstraction and support for AJAX. Installation is fairly easy. Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context. This means that you have full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost everything can be customized. To match your enterprise’s development guidelines, symfony is bundled with additional tools helping you to test, debug and document your project.

AjaxBlog: http://ajaxblog.com/arc…….application-in-php-in-minutes-with-symfony

Homepage: www.symfony-project.com
Documentation: http://www.symfony-project.com/content/documentation.html
http://www.symfony-project.com/trac/wiki

XAJAX
xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Applications developed with xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page.

Homepage: http://xajax.sourceforge.net/

PEAR:: HTML_AJAX
Provides PHP and JavaScript libraries for performing AJAX (Communication from JavaScript to your server without reloading the page)

Homepage: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_AJAX
Documentation: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_AJAX/docs

Flexible AJAX
Flexible Ajax is a handler to combine the remote scripting technology, also known as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), with a php-based backend.

Homepage: http://tripdown.de/flxajax/
Demo: http://tripdown.de/flexible_ajax_example.php

Javascript libs for Flash:

FlashObject
FlashObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content.

Homepage: http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/

OSFlash – Flashjs
The Flash JavaScript Integration Kit allows developers to get the best of the Flash and HTML worlds by enabling JavaScript to invoke ActionScript functions, and vice versa.

Homepage: http://www.osflash.org/doku.php?id=flashjs
Documentation: http://www.mustardlab.com/developer/flash/jscommunication/

AFLAX
A JavaScript Library for Macromedia’s Flash™ Platform. AFLAX is a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications, but with a much richer set of vector drawing controls than are available in either Internet Explorer or FireFox. Developers using this library have access to the full range of Flash features, but without ever touching the Flash IDE.

Homepage: http://www.aflax.org

Java based AJAX Frameworks

ZK
ZK is an AJAX-based solution for developing Web applications in Java. ZK includes an event-driven engine to automate interactivity, and a rich set of XUL-based components.

Homepage: http://zk1.sourceforge.net
Demo: http://www.potix.com/zkdemo/userguide

jWic
jWic is a java-based development framework for developing dynamic web applications with the convenience and familiarity of ‘rich client’ style programming. The component-based, event-driven programming model makes it easy for developers to quickly create flexible and robust web applications.

Homepage: http://www.jwic.de/home/
Documentation: http://www.jwic.de/home/documentation.htm
Demo: http://www.jwic.de/home/demo.htm

I dont know much about Java. Please suggest some more Java based AJAX frameworks.

Not enough? Check out JSAN

But couple of weeks ago I heard about Cake, not the ones you bake, but a development framework for PHP that works like Rails. I decided to give it a shot.

Here’s what they have to say about Cake.
Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

I started reading the tutorials in the Cake Wiki. The first Tutorial goes like this: Create a database, make a new model, controller and view and write about 10 lines of code. Done!

OMFG. You gotta be kidding me! … that was my first expression. I continued reading and tried to understand how Cake works and I must say, I’m Impressed. I been using my own framework which is basically Smarty, PEAR::DB and about 50 self-written classes tightly bonded togather. I’ve used that to develop all my past projects.

There’s something I didnt like about Cake. Cake lacks templating capabilities and its not possible to separate HTML from PHP. It also doesnt support DB abstraction. I’m saying these becuase i’m coming from a PEAR::DB + Smarty environment.

Cake has not had a major stable release so Im not jumping on Cake at the moment but i’ll keep an eye on it. Looks really delicious!

Here’s my take on Flock. Its a nice browser only for those who has a fast broadband and has a weblog and very familiar with web services like Flickr. Therefore, Flock would only attract about 0.001% of all internet users and most of them would say that they’re quite happy with Firefox and are not looking to change browsers.

I really like that integration with del.icio.us. But is it that hard to add the del.icio.us bookmarklet in your Firefox bookmarks and click it whenever you want to update your account? Nop, infact I think it gives better control over how I manage by bookmarks. So Firefox 1 : Flock 0.

Flock seems to have a nice blogging tool integrated. Okay fine, there is no good extension for Firefox with that functionality. But i’m thinking about building one myself. I’ll call it BloggerFox or something. Firefox 1 : Flock 1

Firefox has a huge repository of plugins and all those must be rebuilt to make it Flock compatible. Therefore, Firefox 2 : Flock 1

I’m an intermediate web designer. Now when I design a web site, all I care about whether its working fine in the 3 browsers: IE, FF and Opera. I use services like browsershots.org to see what its like in IE/Mac and Camino. Now that Flock in the market, web designers will have an extra chore to check the design in Flock. Firefox 3 : Flock 1

I like the way it integrates with Flickr but who says that I wanna use images only from Flickr? It doesnt even let me edit HTML so there’s no other to way to add image. Thanks for your effort but i’d rather use something like w.bloggar.

Conclusion. I know Flock is still a baby and maybe someday it will be a pretty powerful software with more defult features than Firefox. But FF will always remain on top and i’m sure developers will come up with new extension that can match the unique features Flock boasts. As for me, I’ll still with my good old foxy and i’m sure most people are thinking the same and really dont think there’s enough room for another browser in the scene.