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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I tried Firefox and Opera because I'd heard good reports.
But, for what I need a browser to do, they didn't seem any better (worse in some ways); so I'm back with IE now.  |
oh !! oh !! it's like a dagger to my heart.
trust me : ie is worse, in so many ways i won't even try to list them, but here are a couple you might be interested in :
- security. oh, the many many security holes. danger, will robinson.
- display : ie plays it fast and loose with the markup language we use to make lovely websites. slightly less in v7 than in v6, but still. this means that when we make a site, we often have to make the site the way it *should* be made first (using proper, valid code and following best practices), then test it out in ie and corrupt our lovely valid code with hacks (oh, the many many ugly hacks befouling our lovely elegant code) until it looks and acts the way we intended in ie as well as in ff. if fewer people used ie, perhaps we wouldn't have to do this anymore, because 1. perhaps eventually the market share would dwindle to negligible and we could just pretend ie didn't exist and stop writing extra code for it altogether (i can dream can't i ?) 2. perhaps M$ would eventually be obligated to make a browser that ACTUALLY RESPECTED THE WEBSTANDARDS the way they're all supposed to (sheesh). (again : dreaming, no doubt).
in the meantime, use firefox. it's the only answer.
(and i could go on, so be thankful i didn't)