Actually, there’s a lot of reasons that I hate Internet Explorer, not the least of them being:
- It’s not standards compliant (actually no browser is, but Microsoft is the worst of all in this field. At least they’re getting better with IE 6).
- No tabbed-based browsing.
- It’s shipped with Windows and it’s free to use – so most people don’t know that there’s much better browsers out there.
- Worse still, this breeds an attitude with developers that says, “If my site looks OK in Internet Explorer, then it’s good enough to deploy.” — hence there are a lot of sites that are non-Internet Explorer friendly.
- It’s error messages are about as useful as a chocolate teapot, and far less tasty.
- It’s behavior is largely inconsistant between versions.
It’s these last 2 points that has caused me much grief today. I’ve got a web page with a select on it. The user presses a link which fires up a popup window. They select something in the popup window and I then use javascript to add a new value into the parent select, then close the window. Pretty straight-forward, right?
Well, yes – very straight-forward in firefox and Opera. But not IE – it returns me most helpful error messages, like:
- R6025 – pure virtual function call
- The server threw an exception
- Error – Unknown error
After about an hour of going insane, I finally found this article on MSDN which told me what the problem was. Thank goodness, problem solved. Still – if the world just used firefox instead, it just wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place.
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Don’t get me wrong, I Love Firefox, but it’s not perfect.<br><br>Actually, I can only think of one thing that annoys me. Whenever people put countdowns or the time in other region the flashing from Javascript drives me crazy.<br><br>But that’s only a small annoyance compared to the rubbish that Micro$oft make us put up with in IE.<br><br>I’m about to convince work to move to Firefox. Then I don’t have to put up with IE at home or work!
Well sonny, on your advice I just downloaded this firefly foxtrot thingy you young people were harping on about. and it doesn’t look too bad really.
At work the resident programmer changed the system recently and now the features I use act screwy on Firefox (sometimes I have to submit forms twice). The funny thing is this guy is a Linux zealot but he targets his code to IE. I just don’t get that??? Worse still he is aware of the problem and hasn’t bothered to change it.
What a tool. I’ve started taking the attitude that if a site doesn’t look good in firefox (that is they’ve written it to work in IE), I’ll tell them. I mean, what else do people leave the "webmaster" links on their sites for?<br><br>Nanna: Nice work on downloading firefox