I would do it if you need to check your websites for compatibility, but if you are so tight for space, you cant afford the few megabytes of space, then I wouldnt. I did, whatever.
if you're creating websites, you should always have the main browsers installed, especially IE, because it tends to require....EXTRA...work in the coding aspect, due to its annoyances..
IE8 is 11 years behind modern standards and practices so it has no value. It doesn't hurt to upgrade so you get rid of the nag but don't use it, whatever you do.
Haha you are a true IE hater it seems, its all I ever see you comment on! I don't see any reason not to upgrade, for the sake that it's the OS's default browser.
Of course. Who isn't? It makes no sense to use it. It holds back the web. It's the most difficult to code for. It rarely gets updated. It's technically deficient. It only runs on Windows. And it's the most insecure browser in the world. Who wouldn't hate it? What difference does that make? You don't need IE just because Microsoft installs it automatically.
t's true what everyone else says - download only if you want as a testing environment, but use FireFox or whatever other browser of choice as your main browser for the best web experience
in my thinking i am using firefox rather than ie and had not upgraded ie till now because i totally browse on firefox without any problems.
I'm not saying you need IE. I'm just saying that seeing as Windows defaults to using 'iexplore' in the COM architecture, it might as well run with the latest components, should it not?! Some applications use Windows default (and can't be changed) to access the internet, which would be IE, and for those reasons I don't see why it shouldn't be upgraded.
As a matter of fact, I do, but you don't need to run Linux to run FF. Most browsers run on any OS while IE only runs on Windows. You seem to miss the point and are not a web developer. Technically, IE is incompetent for what it can't do and ignorant with what it can do. The only reason you, as a user, don't notice all the problems with IE is because we developers bash our heads against the wall, daily, to force feed code to make it work. If we could ignore IE and just write modern, standard code, you would see what a gawd-awful browser it is.
The Windowing environment is very good and better than the many available for Linux out of the box. However, the Windows operating system is awful. Also, my first statement isn't true if you take the time to customize a Linux windowing environment. In that case, most Linux windowing environments run rings around anything Microsoft has to offer. The combination, customized windowing environment with *nix, is the most powerful OS available, making Windows a child's toy in comparison. Of course, that's why Windows is popular in the first place. It's built for amateur users. It's not designed for professional programmers and users.
I suggest you dont install IE8, because it has nothing new even other browsers like Chrome & Firefox doing well
Millions of people that buy computers every day and surf the web with the browser that comes by default, lazy to even try to change its default settings and unable to bother installing whatever else. IE is still the most widely used browser, the browser of the masses, not the browser of the web developers, so if you design for any other browser ignoring complaince with IE you are more likely designing for yourself and trying to force everybody else to follow you, that's not the spirit of browser compliance. I don't care any browser, I surf the web and if a site I'm visiting bothers me with IE, Firefox or whatever browser annonyance I simply close that website and move on.
I was just curious, Are you refering to CSS, Javascript, etc? Those are the only I can think of that a browser would render according to its own standard. I know there is a new thing called Silverlight too, but I believe that is IE only. Cheers,
Four years ago, IE had about 95% of the market. Today, it's under 67% and has fallen almost every month. Nobody said to ignore making a page work in IE. I did say you write markup according to the W3C standard. But only modern browsers properly follow the standard while IE is 11 years behind. That is why there are tens or hundreds of web sites dedicated to writing hack code for IE. There are zero web sites for doing the same thing for any other browser.