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I've been playing with Ruby on Rails by reading and executing example from this book and it seems to be a really nice thingy I must admit… I guess there is a huge amount of behind-the-scenes overhead, but on the other hand, the speed-up in development process is just stunning. Not having to write these input-checking code stuff over and over again is sooooo nice..

Also, I'm using RadRails IDE and find it much better than TextMate which is thought as a default editor for Ruby on Rails programmers, because it integrates all the necessary tools into one development environment. Currently at version 0.6.1, it's a very promising development and I'm looking forward for a next version release.

Well I don't know about where the NetApplications.com gets its data about popularity of various web browsers, but I wish this data would be correct, as according to it the Firefox browser increased its marketshare to 2-digits' 10.something percents.

Personally I use Camino on my Mac most of the time, which uses the same Gecko rendering engine as Firefox but is faster and has way better UI (although doesn't support extensions)

Anyways, I'm happy Firefox with it's standards-compliant rendering engine is (although pretty much slowly) gradually earning more and more users. IE 7 is in beta, but already has lots of complaints about (oh of course) its standards-compliance. I don't think Firefox will ever take more than may be 30% of overall marketshare, as AT LEAST 70% of users will have IE preinstalled on their machines and be too lazy to explore alternatives EVEN if you hit that with Firefox on their lazy heads. But anyways, good news are nevertheless good news. Way to go Firefox team!