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I have no idea why you’re still using that piece of crap browser, but if you’re using IE, then you aren’t seeing my site the way its meant to be seen. Would you go to the National Gallery in London and look at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers through a pair of sunglasses?
No.
Okay, so I’m really stretching it comparing myself to Van Gogh, but the fact is, IE renders my site ugly. It centers my text, where no other browser does this, and I’ve gone over every iota of code to try and rectify the problem. I’ve even replaced the IE CSS file. To no avail.
IE also fucks with my colours. They don’t look anywhere near what I intended them to look like. When you look at my site through IE, you are not seeing what I designed. Period.
PC World had this to say about IE:
Full of features, easy to use, and a virtual engraved invitation to hackers and other digital delinquents, Internet Explorer 6.x might be the least secure software on the planet. How insecure? In June 2004, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) took the unusual step of urging PC users to use a browser–any browser–other than IE. Their reason: IE users who visited the wrong Web site could end up infected with the Scob or Download.Ject keylogger, which could be used to steal their passwords and other personal information. Microsoft patched that hole, and the next one, and the one after that, and so on, ad infinitum.
Why on earth are you people still using it? According to my stats, 60% of my visitors are using IE.
I am seriously considering redirecting IE users to another page. I do not want my site viewed through that godawful piece of garbage being passed off as a browser. I’m just that passionate about the issue.
Before I take such extreme measures, however, I may do a redesign on Shattered Prayer. I know I JUST recently redesigned the thing but it being my personal blog, I think I’d like to see it stand out from the rest of my sight. I want to stick with the Paradise Lost theme still, but maybe have some differences in design.
IF, and only IF, IE renders my site reasonably close to how I want it to look, I won’t redirect IE users.
For those of you ready for a change, Firefox is not the only game in town.
I use Firefox, its reasonably secure and highly customisable. It does what I want it to.
Opera 9 kicks ass. Web 2.0 compatible, lots of very nifty features and now has widgets created by the opera community. Some of the widgets are useful, some are fun, some are kinda crap, but the new Opera can give Firefox a run for its money.
If you’re into social networking, Flock is the browser for you. It intergrates with all those social networking and sharing sites that some folks love so much. Its based on Firefox and is presently in BETA. There are some pretty good extensions that have already been designed for it; I especially like G-Space, which is an extension that allows you to upload files directly to your gmail account, thereby utilising Gmail as online storage.
Seamonkey is the continuation of the old Mozilla Application Suite. Its the browser I used on my old computer, the one that got fried. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to want to install on this computer, or I would be using it instead of firefox. I loved the old Mozilla Suite, and I think Seamonkey, combined with Multizilla, is perfect for powerbrowsers.
And of course there’s Firefox, which is what I’m using now (with Opera 9 as my secondary browser).
It won’t be long before I start re-routing the IE users. I think its time for a change folks, before you find yourselves redirected to this website. Â
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Perhaps Bas will take this opportunity to defend the continued use of IE.
He hasn’t defended the continued use of IE because there is no defense of the continued use of IE.
Well, more likely he hasn’t defended the continued use of IE because he’s been out getting drunk today, which is far more fun than sitting on my blog defending the continued use of IE.
Ooooww… Something’s still browsing my brain from last night..
I’m not going to defend IE. It has been the leading browser for over a decade now. Used to run Netscape, which was in the end slow, huge and cumbersome. Microsoft came in late and did some really filthy things to corner the market; like introducing non-conforming stylesheets. But it is very concise, extremely easy to operate and works on 99.9% of all webpages out there.
In the Netherlands about 95% of users is on IE. I do a lot of webpages; even multibrowser support.
I’ve used dozens of editors, but still i’m using simple text editors to edit my pages. Stylesheets are a nightmare when automatically generated. Most of the time they are about 20 times the size they’d actually need to be. Slow loads, heavy server burden.
If anything it would be time to consider a redraw of the entire web based browsing. But as HTML originated from the science world and has now been eaten by commerce.. Little chance of that happening soon.
Ohh.. And i’m not using IE to look at your pages. It’s SharpReader. Nice and small, free and easy news feed reader.
oh THERE he is.
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I recently blogged about how I just don’t care about Firefox…
http://www.carolynnduncan.com/?p=45
Your thoughts?