I hate IE7, it makes me want to through my computer at the wall! Nothing displays correctly in IE7. Why does Microsoft make people go out of the way to make pages display correctly for their browser?? I wish everyone using IE would just upgrade to IE 8 or 9 or get rid of IE and upgrade to FF.
I am not using IE 7 I use FF. But a lot of people still use IE7 so I try and make my pages work for IE 7 and it sucks!
I use chrome, and if it isnt doing what i want it too I switch to firefox, but i find ff a bit laggy sometimes. I also have the same feeling with windows, so I now use Ubuntu... id rather suffer the non compatability issues than feel the wrath of microsoft.
Why would anyone use IE9? It just continues Microsoft's legacy of making the worst browser on the planet. ANY of today's non-IE browsers are far, far better than IE9 could hope to be.
The worst browser of all time? Netscape4. period. The problem is a lot of corporations have applications and intranets build around IE that can't be easily upgraded. It takes a lot of money, resources and time to put something in place. At the University of work at we still support IE6 because some of our legacy systems were built around it.
Absolutely false! And THAT is why some people think Netscape was a bad browser when, in fact, Netscape was far more standards compliant than IE. After all, IE is based on Mosaic from the University of Illinois. The guy who wrote Mosaic left UofI to start another browser company. He wouldn't use Mosaic code becauser "it was awful". He started from scratch and created....Netscape! That guy? Marc Andreesen. Microsoft later was fined billions of dollars for illegal activities surrounding IE and its underhanded dealings with Netscape. Microsoft is still under US Federal oversight to this day over this.
then we agree to disagree. I guess I should've said the worse browser to develop for. IE4 was fun to develop for. Netscape3 was fun to develop for. When version 4 came out it broke everything known to coder kind. I don't disagree IE6 sux and I basically hate everything Microsoft but based on my experience Netscape4 was the eyesore for me with development.
Only for the reasons given. People always thought IE did everything right and if Netscape didn't conform to Microsoft and IE, then it was the bad guy. Turns out the opposite was true. Netscape followed the standards and not Microsoft. Now people still pay that price, needing to stay with IE6 cause that's the only browser that works with their software that was written for IE6 instead of standards. As an aside, my first involvement with the browser wars was in 1999, iirc. My stock broker was Scottrade. I was having problems right and left getting their web site to work. Every time I called they would advise me to use Netscape because IE was such a bad browser and didn't work like it was supposed to.
I remember doing some movement type stuff with filters for a DELL project with IE4 back in 97. How cool was it you could move text across the screen by designating coordinates? Of course MS was riding a nice high back then and yes people we're pro MS back then. Kinda like the perception now that Google is good. (cough, but that's another story) Netscape made the mistake of trying to charge for their browser, that was the beginning of the end. I do know a few peeps however who worked there and cashed in big time before they nose dived.
Except Microsoft was doing dirty, evil, underhanded illegal tricks to gain market share. Google is not. I used to eat lunch with Jim Clark when I was at Silicon Graphics before he started Netscape.
Too bad we didn't know each other back then. We could've hit up that flight simulator place across the street from SGI. haha. I used to work for a Space Systems Loral subsidary called Cyberstar.
I think I remember that! I worked closely with McDonnell-Douglas and flight simulators in St. Louis. They were our biggest customer in the area and one of the largest buyers from SGI back then.
I love using FF. All other browsers suck. Sometimes, when I can't use FF on a shared machine, I prefer Google Chrome.