Technical Tidbits

This will be short and sweet today as I’m a bit behind in my work.

Since I downloaded and installed Google’s Chrome, I’ve been using it periodically to start testing its capabilities.

Here’s a few things I’ve noticed so far that still needs to be fixed or further work done.

The first signs of trouble I had was when I logged in to my LinkedIn account and tried to manually add a contact. The interface on LinkedIn uses a flash component which Google Chrome seemed to struggle with. For a brief second or two, my entire Chrome “hung” and I was unable to click other tabs.

Once the hang up seemed to correct itself, I checked the memory usage for that tab and my suspicions were confirmed. However, in Google’s description of the way Chrome was built, my whole browser should not have “hung” as I experienced.

Secondly, I opened Chrome first thing this morning to view my average morning ritual websites, as it were. Immediately a problem appeared on my visiting tarot.com. Google Chrome does not honor pure CSS drop down menu’s!

The first image is a screen shot of my browser with a mouse over the horoscope menu item in Google Chrome. You will notice that there are no sub-menu’s appearing.

No CSS Drop Down Menu

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The next image is a screen shot of how the site menu’s should appear and do in Firefox.

CSS Drop Menu in Firefox

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This is not acceptable Google! CSS is a widely used web standard and I’m surprised that this isn’t being translated properly.

More tomorrow….

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