i find it annoying when i run across a site that says it DOESNT support internet explorer. why not? what extra bells and whistles has the developer added that i NEED to use, which i can't use in a basic browser? why does my bank and all my credit cards use sites that explicitly require explorer? ..
"buying into the Strategy employed by MS, and are proof that their Marketing, and Corporate practices are working.They've subverted Web Standards"
...internet explorer has been around since the dawn of graphical internet browsers. so was netscape. look at which one the developers chose to develope for. there are differences in the coding and one is more 'economical' than the other and that is why it was adopted. and its not because "microsoft forced everyone to do it their way" they didnt force anyone to do anything. nobody forced people to buy a pc and use windows, or use windows and use IE. they had explorer on macs anyway. the web evolved around a certain style for a reason.
there is something seriously flawed in the statement that 90% of the internet is 'unstandard' and that 'everyone is waking up to the call to standardize their code.' the standard is what worked wonderfully for years. the standard was explorer, or mosaic based coding. it had its limits. but anyone could jump on the html boat and make something that worked, did its job, and didnt require a degree in web programming. now you have to cover your butt and worry about loose ends that new mozilla and netscape based browsers can not work through. you have to call mozilla and ask them how to make things compatable? you have to ask how to change your coding style to fit their new browser? that's not MAKING A STANDARD! that's going AWAY from stanards.
for better or for worse with mozilla becoming more popular, xero, i'm really dissapointed in this article. it's very amature to say that these new technologies are the standard and everyone else in the internet is wrong and has to not only switch their browsers, but that likewise developers need to change their coding style.
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people say microsoft is evil, and they've brainwashed the web so that you have to use their programs to view the web properly. so what's with the call to make everything a style only mozilla can view? isn't that a contradition? the goal should be to make a browser that views netscape, explorer, and all other languages with the best stability. not reinvent the wheel and introduce bells and whistles that -personally - i've never seen any developer choose to use with the code but makes life harder for the programming trying to get compatability.
additionally, xero, there are many browsers out in the market non microsoft and non mozilla and they are wonderful, secure browsers with all the features that make people happy that are compatable across the board. and they have the same stability the internet has known for years, using the same code style the internet has known for years. browsers display web pages. outside of rendering these faster, i have never noticed something that firefox does that other browsers can't do. on the other hand, i notice often sites that have features firefox can't use.
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for the record, i am presently using firefox. on this computer, its the only browser.. more for research than anything.
