Seems like I have to eat my own words. I was sort of wondering why IE wouldn't die, and was figuring out the root cause for that trend. Looking the the August 2008 statistics for KalaaLog.com, it seems like there are more than 50% (56.86% to be exact) visitors to the site who use FireFox. IE takes a lesser share of 34.37%.

I even see a miniscule of visitors using Chrome. It is the new Open Source browser created by Google - I have not tried it yet because they do not have a Linux version yet.

May be the future is not as bleak for my web designer friends out there as I thought it would be.

The day it does, many web designer and web developers will sigh a relief. Even with so many campaigns to people to change or upgrade from IE, there still is a large market share of people using IE6.

With the Windows users, swithching back and forth between Vista and XP, it is going to be a long way before the pie chart of the market share of browsers change.

In my earlier post (SQLite - Embedable Database), I mentioned that a SQLite program takes about 26kB. This is not entirely true, since I think I had forgotten the exact nature of the linker.

The excutable program that resulted when I compiled and linked the test program, I had to use the -lsqlite3. The library resided in my system, and I am not sure if it was packaged into the resulting executable object. To check how much SQLite really took in terms of space, I got the SQLite3 Amalgamated source code, got the sqlite3.c and sqlite3.h into the test project and recompiled it.

The resulting program is 938779 bytes (~917kB), still less than 1MB. Not sure if I can calculate this way, but the SQLite3 takes about 891kB when embedded into a program. I think it also depends on the compiling and linking environment, but I am not sure of that.