You're just plain wrong: I am a developer and I far prefer IE to any other option. Moreso, I enjoy the varied platforms/browsers and believe this to have been the goal of HTML 0.9 -- different rendering by different browsers. IE just plain and simply _is_ the standard. I won't support the W3C until they come up with a browser of their own -- or certify one as 100% perfect. I too can make up rules for other companies to follow.
Everything that IE offers is way beyond the offerings of other browsers like FF. FF is a nice rendering of web pages -- wonderful. So HTML 0.9 grows to version 5.0 and look at all of the wonderful new things -- new syntax to do the same things (e.g. CSS etc.). COM, ActiveX, DirectX, filters: these are features that _advance_ the web, not destill it. That's the future of the web, interfacing with hardware and software on the client's machine. Otherwise, we're done; and the web has no where to go.
When FF builds a system that does more than ncsa mosaic (where more means able to do something new, not able to do something old in a new/easier way), then we'll still want IE around because we like competition. Until then, FF is simply one of many second-place alternatives.
wow
Posted by
piston
at
2007-04-30 05:37
As both a developer and a heavy user, all I have to say to this is "wow." Since I first heard of Firefox all those years ago, I never expected to hear a legitimate argument against it. To this day, and after reading this comment, I still have not been dissapointed. It would be wonderful if a set of rules could be laid down for all browsers to follow, and even more so if they all actually did. Just because no one browser is perfect does not mean that none of them should attempt to be. To blatantly ignore certain rules while other browsers follow them is both reckless and irresponsible. IE controls a large majority of the market (I haven't looked at the numbers recently enough to quote a reasonable figure), but it is not because they deliver a better product. Most people will use the browser that comes bundled (and hoplessly entangled) with their OS without even a second thought. That being said, wouldn't it be nice if said browser played by the same rules as everyone else?
Everything that IE offers is way beyond the offerings of other browsers like FF. FF is a nice rendering of web pages -- wonderful. So HTML 0.9 grows to version 5.0 and look at all of the wonderful new things -- new syntax to do the same things (e.g. CSS etc.). COM, ActiveX, DirectX, filters: these are features that _advance_ the web, not destill it. That's the future of the web, interfacing with hardware and software on the client's machine. Otherwise, we're done; and the web has no where to go.
When FF builds a system that does more than ncsa mosaic (where more means able to do something new, not able to do something old in a new/easier way), then we'll still want IE around because we like competition. Until then, FF is simply one of many second-place alternatives.