Everybody stop using IE7. No I'm serious!
Everyone has seen all the marvelous posts on the new and improved IE7 on IEBlog and meyerweb etc.
IE has been dead for a couple of years. It has given other browser some room to develop. Now that we have good alternatives to IE like (Firefox), I say don't start using IE 7 again. Why you ask ?
You can bet your money that IE will be adding non-standard features to IE7. People will start making websites with those non-standard features and voila they wont work in FF.
I say the hell to IE7, they killed Netscape once and after that, they made no development in the browser for years. Leaving the masses with an old browser!
We are all to benefit if IE7 just died. Plain and simple.
Edit: I pulled my comment up here to display the non-standard feature policy of MS.
IE has been dead for a couple of years. It has given other browser some room to develop. Now that we have good alternatives to IE like (Firefox), I say don't start using IE 7 again. Why you ask ?
You can bet your money that IE will be adding non-standard features to IE7. People will start making websites with those non-standard features and voila they wont work in FF.
I say the hell to IE7, they killed Netscape once and after that, they made no development in the browser for years. Leaving the masses with an old browser!
We are all to benefit if IE7 just died. Plain and simple.
Edit: I pulled my comment up here to display the non-standard feature policy of MS.
Okay maybe I'm a bit to expressive. But you have to agree on that they push the nonstandard features to firmly lock the developers to MS products.
They've done it with XML, Java, CSS and more.
Example:
In Interdev & Visual Studio, Cursor:Hand is defaulted and not Cursor:Pointer, which is the correct standard
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You have a very narrowminded view on all this. After Netscape was out of the running as being the "most used browser", there were still plenty alternatives for MSIE. Opera came up with some nice ideas and yeah, I still know people who actually use Lynx/Links, Amaya and/or Netscape 4.7.
Netscape introduced the god-awfull blink tag and FF doesn't fully comply to the W3C XHTML/CSS standards.
Firefox, although nice with all it's "extensions", isn't the greatest thing happening to mankind since icecream. It suffers from a lot of pains. I'm happy with it though and don't like people telling me I must switch because some webdeveloper can't hack around its problems. I asume a lot if MSIE users are exactly like this.
So yeah, your post is just "yet another attempt at MS bashing" ... ugh, stop the advocacy and let people use whatever the heck they want. Vi/Emacs, PINE/Elm/Mutt, MSIE/Firefox, Windows/Mac/Linux WHO CARES?
Okay maybe I'm a bit to expressive. But you have to agree on that they push the nonstandard features to firmly lock the developers to MS products.
They've done it with XML, Java, CSS and more.
Example:
In Interdev & Visual Studio, Cursor:Hand is defaulted and not Cursor:Pointer, which is the correct standard
i get so fed up with this. its almost like you have to hate Microsoft because its trendy.
Firefox - alright, I like it - it does have some nice touches - but, I still prefer IE - why? I know it, i m comfortable with it...its serves the purpose I need it for. To browse the web - thats all I need it for - to browse the web. It scome with by far the BEST support, any security breaches - of which, agreed, they have been many - are found and fixed and with a simple download everythings cool again - does Firefox offer this kind of support - has Firefox been around long enough to warrent it "More secure the IE" tag?? No, of course not - utter load of rubbish.
When almost 90% of the world use IE, you have to develop for it. Firefox is a easy to develop for. If your web page works in IE it should work in Firefox - fact, if it doesn't, its your bad code. The one I have problems with is Safari on Macs (I have already drawn the line to our Mac users for supporting IE on Macs - its reduntant), but even then its not a problem, more of a tweak. The box model object is handled better (not worse as some may believe) by Safari, so its tweaking for this.
I for one welcome a more up-to-date browser - bring on IE 7. The preview hasnt wowed me - but hey - im a simple man with simple needs. If i can develop for it better then great. if i can browse the web quicker, then great.
Extensions? i want to buy a CD, not find every single CD beginnign with the letter R!! Extensions my arse.
I don't bash Microsoft because its trendy. I think they have done wonderful things for us developers. Look at making office completely open with ActiveX. Talk to exchange using CDO. DHTMLEdit component. I can go on and on.
But I firmly believe that it is bad for us developers when MS adapts a standard, makes changes and tries to enforce it as the new standard.
I think my Cursor:Hand is a perfect example. Visual Studio supports both Hand *and* Pointer. It is their decision to choose Hand as default, while we all know Pointer is the correct W3C standard that works in all browsers!
Therefore i say (maybe to loud) that i prefer FF.
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