If you thought security orr speed was the only reason you shouldn’t use Internet Explorer(IE), you are very wrong. It makes a webmasters life a living hell as IE does not follow the W3C standards. The W3C is nothing new it has been around since 1994, and is basically a international guideline on how a browser should display a web page. Almost every browser(Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc) except Internet Explorer follow this standard.
A webmaster must not only create a page that displays via a W3C compliant browser but also tweak it so it displays well on IE or even code a whole seperate page for IE and redirect people using IE there. Both methods involve a lot of work and are not always easy. Another horrid thing is the latest version of IE is windows only which means a webmaster needs to use windows or know someone who uses it, in order to see if their page displays correctly on IE. Given there are services that do this for you but one should not have to go through any trouble just to see how a page looks.
So please do us all a favor and download another browser such as firefox or opera.
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Firefox is so much better than IE. I’m the only one in my household that doesn’t use IE though, I haven’t told anyone about Firefox because with it being exclusive, I can keep all my settings the way I want.
yea…
how long are you going to bitch about that? i changed from ie to firefox about 2 weeks ago when this came up in the forums. i have never been happier and neither could firefox. we are happily married and are expecting a small litter. XD
all i have to say in reply to that one matt is LOL!!! i am happy to hear that!
Yes, but many people haven’t, and we need to show them why it is better. So we can continue posting this every few months because we have new people visiting the site everyday.
Ipppppy poo everyone knows that Opera is by far better then both IE and firefox…