IE8 - Just Do It Already, but WHY? | The Coffeehouse

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

if users cared about standards compliance they'd be all using opera or safari. users just care about browser UI, speed, ease of use and useful features.

intelman

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:
if users cared about standards compliance they'd be all using opera or safari. users just care about browser UI, speed, ease of use and useful features.

That is very true. IE lacks in speed, but I like its features and UI. Firefox has the speed and the features as well, but the UI stinks.

So to make me happy, IE better get faster and reduce is memory consumption a bit, or Firefox better get working on their UI.

wisemx
Live it

SaraJoRedux wrote:
I prefer IE to Firefox...

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evildictaitor
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intelman wrote:

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:if users cared about standards compliance they'd be all using opera or safari. users just care about browser UI, speed, ease of use and useful features.

That is very true. IE lacks in speed, but I like its features and UI. Firefox has the speed and the features as well, but the UI stinks.

So to make me happy, IE better get faster and reduce is memory consumption a bit, or Firefox better get working on their UI.

I'm not a webdeveloper, but there's one thing that kills IE for me. And that's not having an Adblock facility.

I know full well why the IE team don't build one in, but adverts are just so distracting for me when using the web that not having Adblock is a show-stopper for me.

elmer
I'm on my very last life.

I have all 4 major PC browsers (IE, FFox, Safari, Opera) on my system, for compatibility testing, but for my daily browsing I still prefer to use IE.

I'm not a MS zealot, or anti any of the others, but I find that IE works more the way I expect a Windows app to work, and requires the least amount of adapting by me. I guess the same would be true of a Mac user and Safari ??

However, as a web-dev, I have to say that IE is my LEAST favourite... because it requires the MOST amount of adapting by me to make it behave the way I expect HTML/CSS to.