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Doing a web survey to gather some information about internet browsers

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Frosty3799

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Hey everyone,

I am taking a low-level visual basics course, and me and a partner have been assigned the project of building a web browser (on the IE platform) with Visual Basic 2005.

First, we have to gather data to try and find out what the 'ideal browser' would consist of, based on survey responses, so we made up the following survey:
Survey Link

It would be greatly appreciated if you would take a few minutes to answer our questions.

Thanks in advance!
Josh
 
done.. Opera... and ease of use (having add-ons such as mouse gestures) are most important to me.
 
I completed your survey. One thing that I noticed seems a little vague: when you asked about the importance of speed, to what exactly were you referring? The speed at which a web page loads is dependent on many factors including the content of the page, the latency between your computer and the host, and the amount of bandwidth on both ends.
 
Originally posted by: DaiShan
I completed your survey. One thing that I noticed seems a little vague: when you asked about the importance of speed, to what exactly were you referring? The speed at which a web page loads is dependent on many factors including the content of the page, the latency between your computer and the host, and the amount of bandwidth on both ends.
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We understood this, but many of our friends who will be taking this survey do not know what half of those words mean... we kept it simple, just 'speed,' because the first thing they all thought of when asked is how fast the page loads.
 
Your survey hardly covers "the ideal browser". If you implement *everything* that the page mentions, you get Firefox. I like Firefix, and I use it myself, but to just have an entire survey that basically says *Firefox has good features* is kinda pointless.

I mean, what's the use of asking how much people value privacy and security? IF they don't rank it highly are you going to intentionally build an insecure browser? Same with speed? If they don't rank it highly are you going to make your browser slow?

Of course the ideal browser would be fast, and secure, and have all the features mentioned in all the other questions, and a preference pane to disable them if you don't want to use them. What is this survey supposed to accomplish?

 
Worst survey ever.

"Do you perfer a browser that uses cookies and cache?"
...

"Which of the following color schemes would you look for in a browser?"

I'd look for the one that lets me use themes. :roll:

"Do you perfer a browser that displays loading status?"

Nah, I could really care less if the page is actually loading or not.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
Worst survey ever.

"Do you perfer a browser that uses cookies and cache?"
...

"Which of the following color schemes would you look for in a browser?"

I'd look for the one that lets me use themes. :roll:

"Do you perfer a browser that displays loading status?"

Nah, I could really care less if the page is actually loading or not.
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He probably has limited time to implement features and wants to choose the ones most important to people.
 
Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: LoKe
Worst survey ever.

"Do you perfer a browser that uses cookies and cache?"
...

"Which of the following color schemes would you look for in a browser?"

I'd look for the one that lets me use themes. :roll:

"Do you perfer a browser that displays loading status?"

Nah, I could really care less if the page is actually loading or not.
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He probably has limited time to implement features and wants to choose the ones most important to people.
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Exactly. This is an intro to computer science course. The survey was basically its own assignment meant to gather a little information for our browser layout based on basic features that many current browsers make use of, but also to get us to test the use of the various types of questioning.

Already we are stuck using an IE platform for the browser, since we are building in VB, so we know that we aren't going to make anything close to revolutionary.

Thanks for your feedback though.
 
Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: LoKe
Worst survey ever.

"Do you perfer a browser that uses cookies and cache?"
...

"Which of the following color schemes would you look for in a browser?"

I'd look for the one that lets me use themes. :roll:

"Do you perfer a browser that displays loading status?"

Nah, I could really care less if the page is actually loading or not.
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He probably has limited time to implement features and wants to choose the ones most important to people.
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It's not like anyone's going to actually use his browser, and he knows this. It's not going to be good enough to replace IE or Firefox. He's doign it as an academic endeavor. He can implement whatever features he wants, it wont make a difference.
 
Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
Just completed the survey, when do you send out my free ipod?
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ooo you musta missed the * next to the word free...

the bottom of the ad read
*while supplies last

and we started with none, so.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
Worst survey ever.

"Do you perfer a browser that uses cookies and cache?"
...

"Which of the following color schemes would you look for in a browser?"

I'd look for the one that lets me use themes. :roll:

"Do you perfer a browser that displays loading status?"

Nah, I could really care less if the page is actually loading or not.
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Maybe to a programmer/CS geek like you, yes. For the general public, very applicable IMO.

Done, GL man
 
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