Comments on: I hate IE http://terminalapp.net/i-hate-ie/ All computers should be destroyed. And flies too. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Miguel Arroz http://terminalapp.net/i-hate-ie/#comment-646 Miguel Arroz Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:34:22 +0000 http://terminalapp.net/i-hate-ie/#comment-646 IE 6 still represents about half of IE users, and IE users represent the vast majority of web users. It's a big market, too big to just drop the support like that. I wish I could do it, I really do. IE 6 still represents about half of IE users, and IE users represent the vast majority of web users. It’s a big market, too big to just drop the support like that. I wish I could do it, I really do.

]]> By: Rodrigo Ventura http://terminalapp.net/i-hate-ie/#comment-607 Rodrigo Ventura Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:14:32 +0000 http://terminalapp.net/i-hate-ie/#comment-607 I guess the reason is simple: top priority in IE is to make people use it; a standards compliant IE would break on many pages which code rely on old IE bugs and/or limitation. Moreover, supporting those badly coded pages will make standards compliant browsers to fail on those pages, which makes the adoption of those competing browsers slower. Thus, they are not dumb indeed :) What can we do? I agree the designers movement refered by João Carvalhinho, and add that we all non-designers should nag pages that do not respect the standards to change. I guess the reason is simple: top priority in IE is to make people use it; a standards compliant IE would break on many pages which code rely on old IE bugs and/or limitation. Moreover, supporting those badly coded pages will make standards compliant browsers to fail on those pages, which makes the adoption of those competing browsers slower.

Thus, they are not dumb indeed :)

What can we do? I agree the designers movement refered by João Carvalhinho, and add that we all non-designers should nag pages that do not respect the standards to change.

]]> By: João Carvalhinho http://terminalapp.net/i-hate-ie/#comment-599 João Carvalhinho Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:41:09 +0000 http://terminalapp.net/i-hate-ie/#comment-599 hello... I undestand you... I really do... so... stop coding for IE6. Fully embrace the standards and drop IE6 Support... It's not the actual version... there's IE7 (not much better) This is the new "designers" movement... Code for the standards... people must move on! JPC hello…

I undestand you… I really do… so… stop coding for IE6.
Fully embrace the standards and drop IE6 Support… It’s not the actual version… there’s IE7 (not much better)

This is the new “designers” movement…

Code for the standards… people must move on!
JPC

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