Dump Internet Explorer, I beg you
I have just spent an irrecoverable Sunday morning hour editing the site’s code in Internet Explorer 6.0. Just this short period with IE made me feel like a cat with its head in a brown paper bag. This site was designed using Firefox, which I consider to be superior to IE in every way, not least this one:
According to Brussels-based ScanIT, users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) were “unsafe” 98 percent of the time during 2004, while Mozilla users — which would include those using Mozilla and Firefox — were “unsafe” only 15 percent of last year. — Information Week
Another reason for my animosity toward IE, leaving aside any questions of unsavory business practices, is that our site looks like crap in it, yet my magic statistic box shows that the majority of you (you, and you, and you, for example) are using it. Hence the recoding this morning, a most vexing thing. Most people are probably sticking with this browser out of nothing more than inertia (which is a polite way of saying ‘laziness’). Don’t be a sheep — unless you have real reasons why you like IE, which you can articulate (for example, in the comments box here), give Firefox a try; we’ve even included a link to their free download site in the sidebar–the same sidebar I just spent an hour recoding so that it wouldn’t look quite so fucked up to those still using Microsoft’s crappy browser. I have no idea why IE renders tables of pictures, for example “Walks, errands, chores” in such a lame-ass fashion. just the Microsoft way, I guess. Dump it.
Still waiting to hear from you Safari users about how bad things look to you; I’ll check it in Opera one of these days.
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April 26th, 2005 at 01.58 CEST+2.00
As long as you’re tweaking the site for a dead browser, why not start writing it Latin, too?
I have resisted the change only because it’s, you know, a change. A) I am bone-lazy. B) Although I have oodles of the necessary gigs/rams/magic beans to download Firefox, I don’t really believe that I do. I need someone to talk me down, man; someone who won’t make fun of my hyperventilating until we’re through.
Those are my real reasons, articulated just for you, and just between you and me, oh, and the internet. Mwah.
April 26th, 2005 at 15.50 CEST+2.00
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August 21st, 2006 at 07.02 CEST+2.00
In my defense, I view your site primarily from my work computer. My work computer is proprietary. I cannot add, delete, or modify any of the software in any fashion. And it has IE. Sorry.