People who use Internet Explorer are holding back what the web could be for themselves and the rest of us
By
Jonathan Schofield
on July 12, 2007
Those who are using Windows (XP or Vista) should really think about using Firefox or Opera. But if you want to stick with Explorer, do yourself and all of us a favour and upgrade to Explorer 7.
I’m assuming I’m preaching to the converted here.
What stats you got, Rorek?
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This should be an automatically recurring claim that appears on Jyte every day. I'm happy to put my name to it!
that's right - those people are just not as good as those (of us?) in the know.... :P
Let me explain: I made my own site, and some others, using all that standards-y goodness. Then, I went to some site run by a college and had to use Internet Explorer because they bought one of those puppy mill education programs that only works in IE.
So, who's fault was it that I had to use Internet Explorer, me or the idiots at the school?
John, I understand, and you've identified a flaw in the claim. Another flaw relates to all the people who are institutionally forced to use Explorer by their IT departments.
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INTERNET EXPLORER SUCKS!
Nowadays, do us a favor and upgrade to IE8. But just move on from IE in general :P.
I have pretty much confirmed to the recommendations and specification of the W3C in my webpage design and lo' and behold, only IE seems to fail to render it correctly.
I'm a web developer and am proficient in XHTML, CSS 1, & 2 and learning 3. SVG, PHP, MySQL etc etc and have been building websites for over 11 years. I discovered web standards a few years ago and have never looked back. The reason IE is so bad is not because the programmers at Microsoft are incompetent (it may seem that way) but because their management don't care to compete on a level playing field. They are leveraging their desktop monopoly to push their own versions of web technology to force developers like me to have to support their POS browser. They also encourage banks and large corporations to fooishly use their inferior and sufficiently different tech to make it impossible for those companies to use the more standards compliant browsers like Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera etc.
This is one of the reasons that they have been up in court in the US and in Europe.
Hopefully one day corporations will understand that using web standards for markup etc and open standard server side technology is better and more compatible than using Microsoft based non-standard proprietary locked in and closed, insecure technologies.
Actually it goes deeper. If you are locked in to Internet Explorer as a company due to the intrenched use of their browser technologies within your corporation then as Internet Explorer is now only available on Windows, that's the platform you have to use. Perpetuating Microsoft's desktop monopoly.
First step: Convincing large corporations that putting all of their eggs into one (Microsoft) basket is a bad idea. After all, Microsoft have had a lot of layoffs lately.
Using Open standards and open source is financially safer and therefore a better business model. Let's have more Macs and Linux boxes in the Enterprise world. Make it a more balanced place.