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Why does anyone use Internet Explorer?
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It's fairly common, lots of Linux/BSD firewalls only work, or work best with IE.
It's sad but lots of web monkeys are so use to Dreamweaver, and to writing IE "only" code that getting good cross platform support is rare.
I agree with salparadise that laziness is a big factor, but I also think it's a lot of ignorance, many web moneys have only ever known the Internet with one browser. To be honest there are so few really good sites, or web based interfaces I'm not really surprised.
What is really sad is that if you write modern standards based web pages, they work beautifully in any thing based on Gecko, Opera or khtml, and with a little effort they are even okay in IE6. They are usually half the size of old style pages in bytes, and load an render faster, and are typically more accessible. But the web moneys can't use their Dreamweaver crutch to do that yet, so they carry on in their bad old ways...
My cynical?
It's sad but lots of web monkeys are so use to Dreamweaver, and to writing IE "only" code that getting good cross platform support is rare.
I agree with salparadise that laziness is a big factor, but I also think it's a lot of ignorance, many web moneys have only ever known the Internet with one browser. To be honest there are so few really good sites, or web based interfaces I'm not really surprised.
What is really sad is that if you write modern standards based web pages, they work beautifully in any thing based on Gecko, Opera or khtml, and with a little effort they are even okay in IE6. They are usually half the size of old style pages in bytes, and load an render faster, and are typically more accessible. But the web moneys can't use their Dreamweaver crutch to do that yet, so they carry on in their bad old ways...
My cynical?
Our company has icky MSIE only stuff as well.. consider even popular 3rd party software like Test Director... only MSIE.
The good news is that our external website now appears to be more open and stardards compliant, and I hear they are wanting to remove the MSIE restrictions as much as possible internally as well. Hope so.
The good news is that our external website now appears to be more open and stardards compliant, and I hear they are wanting to remove the MSIE restrictions as much as possible internally as well. Hope so.
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Surely, you are entitled to insist on compliance beyond this restricted level?