Part of the Problem
February 27th, 2007Holy shaved cat balls, Internet Explorer 6 is most definitely the Netscape Navigator 4 of our day and age. Do you remember 1999? Do you remember how shitty it was to wait for an entire page reload regardless of cache settings? Remember how finicky it was? That is where IE 6 is today.
If you use this ancient and horrid application to “surf” the “net,” you are definitely missing out. And you are the reason for the gnashing of teeth, the rent garments, the hair-pulling, the thousands of wasted hours by web developers the world over and you are the reason that Firefox has gained so much market share with early adopters. Why haven’t you updated yet? What is stopping you?
If you are enslaved to an IT department who doesn’t want to support Firefox or Internet Explorer 7, make friends and push for a move forward. Most IT people will listen to rational users. And they may only be fearing the unknown. Offer to beta test for them. Anything to help those of us trying to give you a better experience get more time making it better and less time spending costly and emotionally damaging hours bending stylesheets and cursing a six year old browser.
There isn’t a hands down winner in the current state of the browser, but anything is better than IE 6. Just think of all the hours that you will save the children. o
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February 27th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Thank you thank you THANK YOU! I just downloaded Firefox. I cannot believe the difference. I am now looking forward to my hair growing back.
Now were is my sewing machine–I need to repair some torn clothing.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Wow, bashing MS and IE. You rebel!
February 28th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Brewcaster, I’m bashing slow browser migration. Microsoft has a great alternative to IE 6 and I linked to it.
It has nothing to do with rebellion.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:30 am
I know, I was kidding. But you bring up a good point. IE6 is and still will be used by a lot of enterprises, in fear of rolling out a new browser. I pushed hard to upgrade all of my users at my job, I presented a class and then rolled it out. I think more than any coding problems with IE6, IE7 now offers tabs, which is showing someone the difference between DVD quality and VHS. Also not to mention better security than before. For disclosure, Firefox is my browser of choice. But there are many enterprise web apps that require use of IE.
Anyway, I enjoy your work here, sorry if I sounded rude…
February 28th, 2007 at 9:06 am
I’m just cranky from spending hours battling browsers. Firefox is my choice as well.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Being that my blog is purely for fun, I’ve given serious consideration to let the IE users twist in the wind and code layout solely for the FF/Mozilla users.
But that wouldn’t be any fun, now would it..
(nice use of “rent”, a wholly under used word in my opinion..)
February 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
we use IE7 and Firefox. I prefer Firefox, though, because most blogs look better in Firefox.
March 1st, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Cripes, if your IT department doesn’t support at least IE7, they merit a severe beating. IE7 fixes several fundamental security oriented flaws that won’t get fixed in IE6. If they don’t support Firefox, then they just aren’t cool. And if you’re still clinging to Safari, you deserve a beating too.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Oh, and Firefox can help make you a more effective learner. See #52.
http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/hacking-knowledge