Comments on: Has Internet Explorer Just Shot Itself in the Foot? http://www.disassociated.com/2008/01/26/has-internet-explorer-just-shot-itself-in-the-foot/ personal website of John Lampard, Sydney based content producer and link mogul Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:14:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan http://www.disassociated.com/2008/01/26/has-internet-explorer-just-shot-itself-in-the-foot/comment-page-1/#comment-5547 Dan Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:33:27 +0000 http://www.disassociated.com/2008/01/26/has-internet-explorer-just-shot-itself-in-the-foot/#comment-5547 I stumbled this using Firefox 3 beta 3 in Ubuntu, and everything looks fine to me. I stumbled this using Firefox 3 beta 3 in Ubuntu, and everything looks fine to me.

]]> By: John http://www.disassociated.com/2008/01/26/has-internet-explorer-just-shot-itself-in-the-foot/comment-page-1/#comment-4483 John Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:26:31 +0000 http://www.disassociated.com/2008/01/26/has-internet-explorer-just-shot-itself-in-the-foot/#comment-4483 Weird display error hey? The code is valid and the page presents as intended in FF for Windows. Weird display error hey? The code is valid and the page presents as intended in FF for Windows.

]]> By: Me http://www.disassociated.com/2008/01/26/has-internet-explorer-just-shot-itself-in-the-foot/comment-page-1/#comment-4476 Me Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:40:04 +0000 http://www.disassociated.com/2008/01/26/has-internet-explorer-just-shot-itself-in-the-foot/#comment-4476 Well, the real problem has been IE breaking standards itself, and Microsoft creating new standards (see ActiveX). Probably in part as a deliberate attempt to degrade the internet experience of Mac and Linux users (as an aside, I'm running Firefox in Ubuntu, Stumle Upon brought up this page, and it fails to display properly...with the right links overwriting a portion of this text box). Now Firefox is shooting up in users base, and I don't personally know a single geek (or anyone who knows a geek) who doesn't prefer it for both quality and security. Well, there are a few Opera users, and the Mac users on Safari and such as well...but this is general Windows users. Occasionally you run into a site that uses broken HTML that displays properly in Explorer, or relies on ActiveX (and all the security problems that entails). But the reaction I tend to see is annoyance with the site itself for being broken, rather than the alternate browsers for sticking to published standards. Well, the real problem has been IE breaking standards itself, and Microsoft creating new standards (see ActiveX). Probably in part as a deliberate attempt to degrade the internet experience of Mac and Linux users (as an aside, I’m running Firefox in Ubuntu, Stumle Upon brought up this page, and it fails to display properly…with the right links overwriting a portion of this text box).

Now Firefox is shooting up in users base, and I don’t personally know a single geek (or anyone who knows a geek) who doesn’t prefer it for both quality and security. Well, there are a few Opera users, and the Mac users on Safari and such as well…but this is general Windows users. Occasionally you run into a site that uses broken HTML that displays properly in Explorer, or relies on ActiveX (and all the security problems that entails). But the reaction I tend to see is annoyance with the site itself for being broken, rather than the alternate browsers for sticking to published standards.

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