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Internet download and upload speeds in India

Net Index by Ookla has recently ranked the Internet speeds across the globe. This index is created based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net. It compares and ranks user download and upload speeds around the globe.

According to this India, the average internet download speed in India is 1.26 Mbps and average upload speed is 0.64 Mbps. This places us at #126 and #101 ranks respectively for download and upload speeds. With the amount IT services that Indian IT companies provide, definitely we need a lot of improvement in this.

The same index ranks US at #27 and South Korea at #1 for both download and upload speeds.

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Posted 1 day ago

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IE6 upgrade woes for enterprises

This is a cross post from the Finelight blog

First of all, I am a web application developer and I had my share of problems with IE6. Recently I was involved in an interesting discussion with one of our clients regarding their plans to upgrade from IE6 to IE7/8. So I wanted to share my experience on some of the problems faced by enterprises in this blog post.

As you might know, most web developers and web2.0 companies hate IE. Google has started phasing out support for some of it’s services like Google Docs and YouTube. Even Microsoft (the company behind Internet Explorer), started encouraging users to upgrade from IE6 for a while now.

So why is IE6 bad?

- Lack of support for standards
- Doesn’t support PNG images
- Bugs
- Security issues
- Slow
- CSS3 support
- No tabs
among several other issues.

Of course it’s a browser designed for the browsing needs of the 90s and it has served more than it’s due share. Modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and IE8 offer all the above features. Based on the discussion I had, here is what I found:

- Enterprises do want to upgrade. They want better security, speed and improved user experience.
- Enterprise software and organization complexities are a big problem.

Maintaining IT infrastructure for big organizations is a tough task. So system administration teams typically try to solve this problem by having a consistent software stack and hardware. So if a core piece of software like the IE6 has to be upgraded, they prefer to do it for the whole organization.

Some of the enterprise software works only on IE6 and may not work if upgraded. For small organizations this could be the intranet and for large organization there could be several pieces of software which works only on IE6.

- Lack of knowledge.
This is the most problematic of all and it takes efforts from the technology companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Developers, IT teams and several others to increase awareness on the problems with IE6.

Regardless of what the obstacle is, IE6 has slowed down the growth of internet and the adaption of new technology. Enterprises should have an IE upgrade strategy in place. We should see a lot of progress within the next 5 years.

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Posted 7 days ago

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How to clear input field on focus

Handy jQuery plugin for clearing an input field on focus. Found this a while ago on bassistance blog.

Plugin for clearing input field on focus

$.fn.clearOnFocus = function() {
            return this.focus(function() {
        if( this.value == this.defaultValue ) {
            this.value = "";
        }
        }).blur(function() {
            if( !this.value.length ) {
                this.value = this.defaultValue;
            }
        });
    };

You can clear the input field by using:

$(document).ready(function(){
        $('span.sb-question-cbox').click(function(){
            $(this).toggleClass('sb-question-cbox-selected');
        });
        $('input.email').clearOnFocus();
    });

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Posted 21 days ago

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Twitter.com could do a lot better with it's layouts

Think Twitter can do a lot better than using

- jQuery 1.3 (current version is jQuery 1.4.2)

- Tables in it's layout

- Reduce the number of HTTP requests

Of course, it may not be at the top of twitter's priorities right now, as most tweet consumption is through it's API and the various mobile/desktop apps.

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Posted 23 days ago

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