Do You HATE Internet Explorer - or just Microsoft

interesting that microsoft release an anti-spyware tool within a month of buying out a company,,,,thats a whole 30 days of testing against all their software
i just wonder if it will in future just come BUNDLED with all the other BLOAT,
and become the royal pain in the ass most of the other software seems to be.

 

There is no choice in the past coz majority of websites designed for IE
glad to see launching of Firefox and browser revolution

 

I was just today doing some work on a site and finished it so I went to the validator. Yup, XHTML 1.0 Strict validated. Same as alwyas. Then I pulled it up in IE. It looked like crap. Suddenly nothing lined up, my carefuly laid out markup was strune all over the screen. It took me another half hour of tweaking to get it to look the way I wanted it to in IE and Firefox, and still validate. If IE were w3c compliant I would complain less, I still wouldn't use it though. If you really want to have a browser revolution it's going to take a lot of webmasters just no longer caring how their stuff looks in IE. Can't do that yet, but that's what it wil take. If it validates, it goes to production. Screw IE.

 

i love firefox and hope it becomes as popular as IE as competition promotes
quality, even though i had problems with firefox speed sometimes
(even after i did all those recommended changes), plus, i have to use IE for some pages, cause lots of designers make them just for IE it seems

 

My take on both: it would be time to stop considering a generation 5 product better more secure insecure compliant or uncompliant than another:

http://www.unitedscripters.com/spellbinder/internetexplorer.html

There is something deeply wrong in the approach we end front developers have towards the internet itself, not just the browsers that we use to browse it.

 

only thing i hate IE is everytime i search for cracks i get spyware and adwares!

 

Any antivirus would stop that

 

Man this is an old thread...

Why validate it as 1.0 strict?

Why not transitional - the cross-browser compatability is much improved like that.

 

Seems safe to say that all of us webmasters have to use both no matter how we feel about it. Me personally, I would take firefox anyday of the week over old clunky IE. But since most people still rely on the beast, it has to stay as part of the development process.

Supposedly, the next release of IE is geared to be more similiar (aka thieving) towards Firefox as far as website coding compatibility goes, multi-tabbing pages and built in RSS technology. But this is the same company that ensures its millions of victims, scuse me, customers the best computer security available. Dont forget that you need that rocking XP Firewall for all of your security needs!!

 

hate is a strong word...

I strongly dislike with a passion: M$ and IE...

its stupid... for a company that has so much money and resources at their disposal, the windows operating system is not the best it could be. They built the OS on poor code and just patches it whenever theres a problem. Also, their software is overpriced imo.

on to IE:
TABS! come on! if you had tabs, i might have beared with the other junk in IE but no... they refuse to adapt and cater for customers. M$ is just intrested in monopolizing and not intrested in perfecting... ohhh i can go on and on... now.. i changed my mind...

I now remember. I HATE Microsoft most programs they create.

 

The new MSN toolbar lets ie use tabs (Although it's no where near as good as firefox and opera.)

 

I don't hate IE, but our job would be much more easier if they followed web standards in the first place. Why do we have to design our sites twice just to make it look good on both IE and others?

And it's very hard to explain this situation to an average 2hours/week internet user. They want something, you make it following all the standards, and it looks like shit on their ie. There's no way you can tell them that this is how it should be.

On a second thought, yes i hate IE.

 

wonder if the new developments in ie7 will win people back over?


http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/14/466278.aspx

 

I love firefox really , ie got tons of glitches

 

I've gone Mac, got sick and tired with Vista being so slow to start up and the constant updating (virus checks etc).

So, I only use Safari or Firefox on the Mac.

 

You would be here posting in this thread if Microsoft didn't exist

 

We'd be posting about Mac or Linux and trying to find deep dark faults in both.

Microsoft comes up because its so easy to pick off issues that are smack right in your face screaming at you.

 

I don't use IE, instead Firefox rules....!

 

i dont hate IE.. i just dont use it much.

 

I don't hate to Internet Explorer but my choice is Firefox. I used it for a long time of period. I think it would be the right option for someone if he/she face any problem with IE.