Browser Performance upon Embedding Google Groups LawPundit Forum in Blogger: Gecko Wins (Firefox and Google Chrome), Opera Follows with a Bug, and Internet Explorer (Trident) Last with an Error Message: plus We Used Lunascape As the Toggle-Capable Test Engine

Update on "the Browser Wars" as we just embedded the new Google Groups EUPundit, EULegal and LawPundit into the corresponding EUPundit, EULegal and LawPundit Blogger blogs.

What happened browser-wise?
Some strange things.

Take it for what it is worth - but this embedding of Google Groups in Blogger has up to now worked without a hitch in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Internet Explorer produces a garbled message about not being able to embed frames and does not show the forum at all. Not usable.

Opera has one line of overlapping text at LawPundit -- a serious-enough error to deter usage.

I checked it all out again by using Lunascape 6 to access the Lawpundit blog.

At Lunascape you, where you can toggle between the Gecko, Trident and Webkit enignes for the major browsers:

• Gecko reproduces the Google Groups LawPundit forum in the LawPundit Blogger blog without fail 
• Webkit overlaps one line of text
• Trident the first time around gave a runtime error and an otherwise blank page and at the second attempt produced most of the page, but  without the forum and with the message: "ERROR: Possible problem with your *.gwt.xml module file. The compile time user.agent value (ie9) does not match the runtime user.agent value (ie8). Expect more errors."

 I googled the "gwt.xml" problem and found this page (see that link).

In any case, those results match my own browser usage of Firefox as the browser of choice (because of all the options), Chrome as a good backup (perhaps faster, but limited, option-wise), Opera good with some great features but sometimes buggy and eccentric, and Internet Explorer is simply too flawed and not worth the money.

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Video at CNET News

Not directly a topic related to the EU, but indirectly for sure. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is coming as reported by Stephen Shankland at CNET News in Android 4.1 gets faster; better notifications; Google Now.

Samsung Galaxy S3 Launches in Europe but in the USA Frivolous Use of Trivial Patents to Avoid Market Competition as Apple Sues to have the Smartphone Banned in the USA

The frivolous use of patents to try to keep companies from facing free market competition continues....

Dante D'Orazio has the story at the Verge in Apple asks judge for ban on Galaxy S III before US launch because of alleged patent infringing "similarities".

The reason for the patent law suit actually has a lot to do with the fact that Samsung on Tuesday launched the Galaxy S III in Europe, where the entire Galaxy line has been rightly leaving overpriced and overhyped Apple products in the dust, as savvy and informed Europeans are making smartphone purchase choices based on educated and informed decisions.

Miyoung Kim and Paul Sandle have the story for Reuters, writing inter alia in Samsung Galaxy S3 gets head start on rival iPhone:

"The smartphone, running on Google's Android operating system, boasts a 4.8-inch screen, one of the largest on smartphones ever, and much bigger than the 3.5-inch display on the iPhone 4S."

Similar? Perhaps to the deluded.

Crossposted at LawPundit.