For Users of Internet Explorer 6
February 22nd, 2008If you use Windows and are running Internet Explorer 6, I have a great deal of pity for you and three recommendations.
1) Hold the shift key and click the refresh button. Many of the horrible artifacts of my recent redesign will go away. You are still using a dead browser, however, so your problems run deeper than a simple shift-refresh. The next two points should help a little.
2) Download a new browser. For FREE! Firefox can be gotten here. Safari can be gotten here. Both are for Windows users. LOOK INTO IT.
3) Look seriously at a Mac. It will look back, just as seriously. o
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February 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Dear Internet, If you are using any version of IE, I’ll keep you in my daily prayers. I hope you that you soon find your way to the salvation of Firefox and Safari.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Flock. The social networker’s wet dream.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I want IE 6 to fall off the face of the earth and never return. It is a web programmers worst nightmare. It sucks to get done with something then find out your code works in every browser but IE6.
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Macs rule.
PCs don’t.
Buy a Mac.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
internet explorer???
what is that???
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
i got so mad at IE I actually uninstalled it. And I am computer we todd did.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I only use IE to click on the ads in Heather’s site. Firefox is duly AddBlocked.
I did look seriously at a Mac the other day. It died laughing when it looked inside my wallet. I tried to stop it from looking, the poor thing, as I knew what was coming (had happened recently to a couple of DVD players, a nice digital camera, and a bottle of French perfume), but the Mac was just too fast for me.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Seriously, what kind of so-called standards-compliant browser requires so many hacks and workarounds as this pile of crap. Not that 7 is much better but it’s a dream to code for comparatively.
Being on the net on a Mac kicks ass also because of OS-based spell check. It ensures that I spell words like comparatively and definitely correctly. If you aren’t using a Mac, you should definitely remember to look those words up each and every time you type them.
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Just downloaded it now.. so far so good.
I also made a post about it, haha.
Thanks Jon.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I’m a recent convert to Firefox & Thunderbird and must admit I’m nothing but impressed so far. The lack of spyware at the end of my nightly scan is truly amazing. If I don’t open IE at all in a day it finds “0″.
It’s just too bad my company email won’t display properly through it.
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 am
bre,
I hear your question asked frequently from mac users. As Windows user, and from personal experience as someone who designs and codes my own site and some for others, it is the program I usually deal with every 3-5 times of viewing a page.
The common phrase for the program for me is iexplore.exe. The reason you ask? Well the answer I give is, that is the name I most commonly see it as on my computer since more than half the time I have to go into my task manager and have to manually close it through processes (not even the application tab) because once again it crashes because it can not read jack squat and over loads easily.
I am still a Microsoft man, come on you know you want a Zune.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:39 am
Firefox is a lovely browser. I love my Mac so much that it’s almost not appropriate and that is all I am going to say about that in a public forum.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:55 am
Opera. It’s free, too.
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 am
wwwwwhhhhat? People still use IE? Poor, poor souls.
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Oh, to own a Mac and be cool like the rest of the cool Mac kids. Sadly - or not - I use programs that are written only for Windows, and some programs for which the Mac versions suck.
But I’m sure you know how cool you are for owning a Mac. I mean, it’s just like high school, right?
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I agree with everyone. The day I got my Mac, and my roommate showed me Firefox was the day I stopped looking back.
I don’t like Safari, though. I find it sometimes screws up text and quotes (and inserts really obnoxious figures instead). Maybe it’s just me. Have you had problems with this?
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Still a Mac and Firefox guy here. Although the new Safari v3 is better. The widget-maker is cool. If you like widgets.
Blurb , I know you have been driving up the hit counts with recent posts, but how bout some Wii stuff ?
I don’t expect Kotaku, but maybe lining up a Blurbomat Brawl for when SSBB comes out. You could take out all of your frustrations on us right-of-centers. That is if you can’t wait until November.
SSBBB Super Smash Bros Blurb Brawl ?
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Gee, anyone listen to “Wait wait. . . don’t tell me” today? If not, http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35 scroll down to “panel round two”
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
When I was an undergraduate in college, and didn’t have a computer of my own, I hopped around the computer labs on campus. Some labs were strictly Mac, others (mostly) PC. I found the Macs’ operating system to be incredibly intuitive, but otherwise they (all iMacs, I believe - those super colorful things where the computer and screen are one) to be pieces o’ crap that didn’t stand up to the heavy usage like the PCs seemed to. The mouses (mice?) barely worked, the systems froze up constantly, internet pages took eons to load, email took even longer, the cd trays were either permanently locked in or out, and working on them was just a pain in the ass. The PCs were miles better. And I never understood why Macs were considered so much better?
When I went to purchase my first personal computer, I was told that I shouldn’t base my decision on using an iMac - and a public iMac at that - that a “real” Mac is a far superior machine, but jesus h. on a pogo stick, they are pricey.
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Now if I could only afford a MAC
February 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I swear this is not an advertisement and I am still doing Windows and lust for all things Mac–I just got my Iphone BTW but I noticed today on Apple.com you can get a refurb Imac for $999(which is really only a $200 savings) and Im almost ready to do it http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=44BD9AA1&nclm=CertifiedMac
My friend bought a refurb Ipod from them since he wasn’t convinced he wanted one and it’s been great for almost a year so far.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Start saving. Once you’ve had Mac you’ll never go back.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:15 am
@Jessy, so far, the only person making this like high school is you.
It has nothing to do with being hip or cool. Just efficient. IE6 is a crap browser. IE6 is a dead browser. There are great alternatives out there. That’s all I’m saying.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am
IE6 is the spawn the devil.
February 24th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I’m lusting after a Mac laptop–what would you advise?
February 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I just uploaded Safari. So far so good, and what a difference!
Thanks for the tip. I was dying a slow, slow IE death!
Now all I need is a Mac…….. any recommendations?
: )
February 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
What I love about macs, aside from making me cool :P… is that the old G3 in my 6 year old’s room runs just as well as it did years ago. I’ve never had a PC that performed that well for that long.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I might be the only person on the planet but we have 9 computers total in this house.
We have one MAC we got in 2007. It is my least reliable tool. And Firefox bugs out on me all the time. I like the features better then Safari but I always end up going back to Safari because Firefox gets cought in some crazy loop of functions and will not move forward.
My Mac is like a trophy wife. Very pretty and thin (AND EXPENSIVE)….but not where you go when you need something done.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Don’t forget Opera! Even though I just bought an iMac and am refreshing the tracking info every 3.5 seconds, I will continue to use Opera on the shiny new computer because it is awesome.
Also, it was awesome before Firefox was popular.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
@nikol, It’s the exact opposite in our house. The Macs are the go to machines when it’s time to get something done.
For doing print work, PCs just can’t handle the large files in any kind of a way without spending the same money on a high end PC.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
If I were to invoice the hours I spent unable to work because of dealing with PC issues, it would pay for the Mac I bought. No regrets.