Comments on: People don’t know what a web browser is (but first: IE, Firefox, & Opera updates)

By: Google Suggest and the Chrome omnibox need to merge | Wisdump

Google Suggest and the Chrome omnibox need to merge | Wisdump — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:21:25 +0000

[...] powerful each day, so why not integrate it into Chrome? It probably won’t matter to those who can’t tell the difference between a web browser and a search engine, and use Google as a jump-off point to browsing other [...]

By: O Internet Explorer 6 é culpa nossa! » JulioGreff.net

O Internet Explorer 6 é culpa nossa! » JulioGreff.net — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:20:32 +0000

[...] algo lógico manter a compatibilidade com o IE6 por algum tempo, por mais doloroso que isso fosse. Usuários comuns mal sabem diferenciar entre um browser e o Google, atualizar para o IE7 nos primeiros dias seria pedir demais. O estranho é que, até hoje, quase 3 [...]

By: IE6 falls; XHTML2 cancelled. | Wisdump

IE6 falls; XHTML2 cancelled. | Wisdump — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:16:57 +0000

[...] have to commend Internet Explorer team on their great marketing efforts to improve the IE8 adoption rate. Even if Microsoft’s latest browser is up to snuff compared [...]

By: Edukacja, a raczej jej brak – czy wiesz czym jest przeglądarka? | Enzo Blog

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:39:20 +0000

[...] tekst na blogu Tima Van Damme. Kilka dni później informacja w postaci artykułu pojawiła się na Wisdump. Wszystko przez Google [...]

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Twitted by Inventis — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:46:07 +0000

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By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:37:26 +0000

I think it’s not necessarily our job to relentlessly educate. People get massively zealous in tech but I think we’d do better educating people in the things that matter and making those that don’t have to matter just disappear.

Whether they know which browser they use? Maybe worth it
Whether they understand search vs address bar? Maybe not worth it
Understanding why certain addresses are phishing scams? Not gonna happen, we need to make it irrelevant

Also wouldn’t it be interesting to see what under 18′s answered…