Comments | ninjakitten: IE Antivangelism...

ninjakitten

IE Antivangelism...

Aug 02, 2005 14:56

Been working on sites recently (as usual) and a question came to mind ( Read more... )

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Comments 31

asciident August 2 2005, 19:08:59 UTC

IE7 beta's not looking half bad.

God knows I never thought I'd see myself writing that.

yendi August 2 2005, 19:31:13 UTC

Actually, Mac IE sucks as much and more than Windows IE, as it hasn't been updated in over three years. There was a time when it was a groundbreaking browser, though.

But Safari comes as the default browser with any Mac, and Firefox is also available. No excuse for being stuck on IE.

ninjakitten August 2 2005, 19:33:43 UTC

Purely from a standards standpoint, Mac IE is =still= more compliant than IE6.

Which is so, so sad.

yendi August 2 2005, 19:35:21 UTC

Sadly, looks like IE7 won't do too well, either: http://news.com.com/Next+Explorer+to+fail+Acid+test/2100-1032_3-5813897.html?tag=nefd.ac

gamerguy August 2 2005, 20:02:48 UTC

I use it because I've never seen a compelling reason not to. I've been to only a couple of sites that ever had a problem with IE, and my feeling is this: yes, there is a 'standard' but more than 90% of all PC users use IE: whatever works with it IS the standard despite any wishes or desires to the contrary. You can't ignore the 900-pound gorilla and it seems silly to try.

I tried Firefox and didn't see any difference at all until I tried to go to some sites that were optimized for IE, and it had trouble rendering them. I like the sites better than Firefox, so I deleted it and went back to IE.

tsuki_no_bara August 2 2005, 20:22:08 UTC

i use ie at work because i only have os9 on my mac and neither firefox nor safari come in os9 versions. altho the new computer is running osx and i use firefox on that, and i use safari at home because firefox for reasons unknown to me refuses to show me a current friends page on lj. but mostly if i'm using ie it's because i'm still on a computer running os9.

annwyd August 2 2005, 20:36:50 UTC

I used to use Firefox because it blocked so many more popups and accumulated fewer viruses, but then when I reinstalled Windows and put Firefox back on...it stopped blocking so many popups. D: I don't know what happened.

The tabbed browsing is also really nice. I didn't use it much at first, but now I realize I am addicted to it.

The only problem is that Firefox is a resource whore--on my computer, at least.