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Title: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: DorsetBoy on Jul 12, 2010, 18:33:14
http://www.fenrir-inc.com/global/sleipnir/

http://www.fenrir-inc.com/global/

Gave this another try the other day and now have it as my second browser after Opera.  Firefox has been totally removed from my machines, it is not a browser I want any more.

Sleipnir is fast..... very fast, and has custom settings galore.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Steve on Jul 12, 2010, 18:39:01
Why Dorset does it say for advanced users?
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: DorsetBoy on Jul 12, 2010, 18:43:06
Quote from: Steve on Jul 12, 2010, 18:39:01
Why Dorset does it say for advanced users?

It's the level of options/settings available that would overwhelm many users.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Simon on Jul 12, 2010, 18:59:30
I couldn't view all of my bookmarks, so gave up!  :red:
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Steve on Jul 12, 2010, 19:05:17
Sadly it's Windows only.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: DorsetBoy on Jul 12, 2010, 19:06:16
Quote from: Simon on Jul 12, 2010, 18:59:30
I couldn't view all of my bookmarks, so gave up!  :red:

It takes a while to find out how to use the toolbars.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Simon on Jul 12, 2010, 19:09:56
Yeah, and I'm not a fan of toolbars.  I prefer less clutter.  :)
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: kinmel on Jul 12, 2010, 19:41:32
Quote from: Steve on Jul 12, 2010, 18:39:01
Why Dorset does it say for advanced users?

Designed by nerds, for nerds.

I can't work out why they sold out and made it Windows only.

I wonder how long it will be before it catches up to the other browsers.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: nowster on Jul 13, 2010, 00:48:39
What's its score on the ACID3 test?

http://acid3.acidtests.org/
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: DorsetBoy on Jul 13, 2010, 06:35:51
Quote from: kinmel on Jul 12, 2010, 19:41:32
Designed by nerds, for nerds.

I can't work out why they sold out and made it Windows only.

I wonder how long it will be before it catches up to the other browsers.

Designed for nerds? What the heck is Firefox then?

How long till it catches other browsers up............  if you mean quantity of users,it is a specialist browser and was never intended to be anything else.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: DarkStar on Jul 13, 2010, 15:07:24
Been playing with this for a couple of days and quite like it. Put a darker skin on it and like the way you can allow JavaScript on a site only basis, as you can with Chrome. The lack of individual site control of JavaScript is now becoming a real weakness in FireFox, a real security risk.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: pctech on Jul 13, 2010, 18:40:08
It says to download the Right version, I'm assuming there's a wrong one somewhere  :out:
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Steve on Jul 13, 2010, 18:44:52
Well there also seems to be a Notebook version and Archive version. This would make them either the right or the wrong version depending on the installation ;D
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Ray on Jul 14, 2010, 09:32:00
Quote from: nowster on Jul 13, 2010, 00:48:39
What's its score on the ACID3 test?

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

20/100  :eek4:
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: gizmo71 on Jul 14, 2010, 11:06:58
Quote from: DorsetBoy on Jul 13, 2010, 06:35:51
Designed for nerds? What the heck is Firefox then?

My mum uses FireFox so it can't be for nerds...
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: DorsetBoy on Jul 14, 2010, 11:20:10
Quote from: Ray on Jul 14, 2010, 09:32:00
20/100  :eek4:

And.....?  I have tried plenty of browsers through that "test" the only one that passed 100% so far was Opera, Firefox certainly fails it well. 

There are sites that don't work correctly on Firefox,IE6/7/8 and Opera, yet Sleipner renders them all for me perectly.

I ran forum software by some of those testers to check html ,xhtml and css compliance....... one test site passes them, others fail the exact same code.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: gizmo71 on Jul 14, 2010, 11:29:50
Quote from: DorsetBoy on Jul 14, 2010, 11:20:10
Firefox certainly fails it well. 

... at 96/100.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Steve on Jul 14, 2010, 11:37:31
Safari gives 100/100 on the Mac anyway
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Glenn on Jul 14, 2010, 11:48:40
Quote from: gizmo71 on Jul 14, 2010, 11:29:50
... at 96/100.

I get 96 too.

With IE6 on my work PC, I get 12/100
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Ray on Jul 14, 2010, 11:53:44
IE 8 is the same Glenn, 12/100

Google Chrome 97/100
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Steve on Jul 14, 2010, 12:56:21
Mobile Safari iPhone 100/100 Is this acidtest business owned or sponsored by Apple >:D
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Simon on Jul 14, 2010, 22:59:08
I get 93/100 with Sea Monkey, and 94/100 with Firefox.

What does it prove, anyway?  :dunno:
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Steve on Jul 14, 2010, 23:07:14
Read , inwardly digest and sleep zzzzzzzzzzz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: Simon on Jul 14, 2010, 23:39:09
:yawn:
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: DorsetBoy on Jul 15, 2010, 07:12:15
QuoteCriticism

The current iteration of the test has been criticized for being a cherry-picked collection of features that are rarely used, as well as those that are still in a W3C working draft. Eric Meyer, a notable web standards advocate, writes:

"The real point here is that the Acid3 test isn't a broad-spectrum standards-support test. It's a showpiece, and something of a Potemkin village at that. Which is a shame, because what's really needed right now is exhaustive test suites for specifications– XHTML, CSS, DOM, SVG."[37]

In other words it is totally irrelevant and should be ignored.
Title: Re: Sleipnir browser for advanced users......
Post by: gizmo71 on Jul 15, 2010, 07:51:01
It's a bit chicken and egg though; one of the reasons features are rarely used is because browser support for some parts of the standards is so poor.