If, for some completely ridiculous reason, you need even more proof that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is a total piece of crap, check this out.
Currently Microsoft.com (no, I’m not going to link it) looks like this in IE:
Here’s what it looks like in Firefox, a real modern browser:
Abandon IE please. For the sake of all of us who make websites. And consider abandoning Microsoft completely.
I don’t entirely trust this report from TechRepublic (it’s missing some technical details). It’s a warning about bugs in the new Internet Explorer (version 8). Basically a “meet the new IE, same as the old IE” situation. Stop using it already. Try out Firefox or Chrome.
I wasn’t aware until this week that Microsoft made a product called Expression for building websites. Once I checked it out, I was baffled by the claim that they’re “passionate about standards.” This from a software company whose internet browser is incompliant with accepted web standards.
Ha. A sensible movement in web development. A site that catalogs sites that have dropped support for an unsafe, unsupported browser that just makes our jobs harder: I Dropped IE6.
Leave aside the content in the web page displayed and check out the chrome on the browser. KTLA’s Cyber Guy uses Internet Explorer 7. You’d expect a tech expert to use a smarter, safer browser but this is pretty much what I expect from Knutsson who once claimed after spending a day with Paris Hilton that she was very intelligent. So is IE7, Kurt. *eyeroll*
On October 1, 37signals will no longer support Internet Explorer 6. I haven’t been supporting it for years. Not exactly on purpose but still…
We had a brief discussion via email around the office today. The head of our UI team sent everyone a link to a new .png (I pronounce it “ping”) fix for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). I know for the non-webby it still sometimes comes as a surprise that IE is so despised by web developers but here it is: IE is crappy and here’s one reason. A .png is a type of graphic file like a .jpg (“jay-peg”) or .gif (“gif”). IE doesn’t render transparent .pngs correctly so designers must employ a hack to make this very common file format work in this very common browser.
One of our designers responded with another Microsoft complication to avoid. I responded, “Avoid Microsoft. Period.” Which got a response like “Oh, I heard you don’t like IE. If only you can convince billions of people to stop using it…” Har har. (continue reading…)