Originally posted by: JediSage
I've been a pc user every day of my life since 1994, and IE has blown cheese since the day it hit the market. The only reason I ever used it was because Netscape couldn't compete and another viable product didn't come out until Opera, shortly thereafter killed by the much better FireFox. I'll never use IE voluntarily again. Any browser that requires a minimum of 5 mouse-clicks in this day and age to clear my browsing history should be used as a boat anchor.
Originally posted by: lordjedi
Maybe because MS still owns something like 80% of the desktop market?
On the topic of IE, IE 7 is light years ahead of IE 6 as far as standards compliance are concerned. But since your all on Macs, I guess you wouldn't know that.
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
I HONESTLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL USING IE. IT'S BECOME SO OUTDATED. THERE ARE A LOT OF WEBSITE THAT REQUIRE EITHER FIREFOX OR SAFARI. IF YOU TRY USING IE YOU'RE SHIT OUT OF LUCK.
I HONESTLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL USING IE. IT'S BECOME SO OUTDATED. THERE ARE A LOT OF WEBSITE THAT REQUIRE EITHER FIREFOX OR SAFARI. IF YOU TRY USING IE YOU'RE SHIT OUT OF LUCK.
Maybe because MS still owns something like 80% of the desktop market?
On the topic of IE, IE 7 is light years ahead of IE 6 as far as standards compliance are concerned. But since your all on Macs, I guess you wouldn't know that.
I've been a pc user every day of my life since 1994, and IE has blown cheese since the day it hit the market. The only reason I ever used it was because Netscape couldn't compete and another viable product didn't come out until Opera, shortly thereafter killed by the much better FireFox. I'll never use IE voluntarily again. Any browser that requires a minimum of 5 mouse-clicks in this day and age to clear my browsing history should be used as a boat anchor.
Oh please! It's one more click than FireFox and ONLY because it prompts you with "Are you sure?" That is the most pathetic reason I've ever heard for not using IE.
I've been using PCs for about 16 years now. Yeah, IE was crap until about version 5, then 6. Netscape blew absolute chunks for the longest time and I've always hated Opera's interface. I went to Mozilla in the 1.x days and didn't switch to FireFox until I couldn't find add-ons for Mozilla anymore. I've been very happy with FireFox ever since, but I still open IE from time to time when a site doesn't work properly. Of course, with IETab, that's becoming less and less often. Now I can just open FireFox with the IE rendering engine and use IE whenever necessary. And no, changing the UA is not an option for some things. There are a few programs (most notably the phone system config program I have at work) that simply do not work unless they're run through at least the IE rendering engine.