Yet, another reason to EXNAY the IE-AY!
So it goes without saying that I absolutely and utterly hate Internet Explorer. Pretty strong words right? I'm sure you've heard someone or a friend ranting and raving how they hate IE right? But for some reason you never quite understood why?
Well, besides the fact the Internet Explorer isn't very friendly to web developers and the like, there is yet another reason to remove it from your life altogether! The reason is that there is apparently some sort of flaw in Internet Explorer that allows hackers to get access to the user files!! WHAT??? Yep, here's what "Microsoft" had to say about the issue. "Our investigation so far has shown that if a user is using a version of Internet Explorer that is not running in Protected Mode an attacker may be able to access files with an already known filename and location." Well, that about sums up why I do not like IE.
I'll let you determine whether you like it or not yourselves, but my suggestion to you would be to remove IE altogether from your PC and start using a good browser like "Firefox", "Safari", or the upcoming nice piece of work "Chrome". I'm not saying they don't have their problems... but at least they are all standards compliant and they look great and work great!
There.. I said it!
Happy Browsing!
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I'm strongly considering either charging extra for testing in IE 6 or just writing it off completely. IE 7/8 may not support the majority of CSS3, but at least I don't tend to run into bizarre positioning issues.
Hey Stephen,
Yes, I completely agree with you on this one. I have started charging extra for testing in IE6. I know you can't completely trust the browser statistics but eventually (possibly in the next year) the numbers will drop off the map. Then we can be rest assured to write it off completely, but until then I plan to continue charging for the service.
I will now being charging extra to troubleshoot IE6 as well. For a while now I have just been adding an IE6 detect with an alert saying to update their browser and then whatever simple IE6 specifc css I can do for a quick clean up. But agree, anything that pushes people to stop using IE completely (of coarse not going to happen), or hopefully, pushes IE to make itself better ... is always good!
Great, glad to hear I'm not the only one :) Thanks for stopping by Dana!