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Why Internet Explorer needs to be thrown in the Garbage

Posted by m.guenther
October 9, 2007

ie_ff Anyone who has done any kind of webwork at all realizes what an utter piece of junk IE (Internet Explorer) really is. After spending a considerable amount of time coding and designing a website, my usual rule of thumb is to “hack” the perfectly looking site on every other browser for the evil IE browser.

For any that are interested I recommend ALWAYS checking your site progress in a Standards Compliant Browser, such as Firefox-then go back and adjust for IE. Aside from the headaches IE will cause you, there are many other reasons to make the switch. These are just a few:

Improved Tabbed Browsing
Spell Checking
Search Suggestions
Session Restore
Web Feeds (RSS)
Live Titles
Integrated Search
Live Bookmarks
Pop-up Blocker
Streamlined Interface
Accessibility
My personal favorite: Add-ons Manager for Extensions and Themes

For a more in depth explanation of the features associated with Firefox, read here from the official website.

So join the masses of people that are seeing the light! Down with IE and in with Firefox!

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Comment Number:: 1
Written by:: casperaustin
Posted on:: October 10, 2007 at 1:58 pm

Here, here… IE stinks.

Comment Number:: 2
Written by:: Josh Stodola
Posted on:: October 17, 2007 at 10:18 am

Whoa, calm yourself. Firefox is not that great either! I like IE7 compared to Firefox. Hands down.

However, I agree that IE6 needs to go in the garbage.nightmare.

Comment Number:: 3
Written by:: Josh Stodola
Posted on:: October 17, 2007 at 10:21 am

Hey just read your about page. I live in Lincoln, NE.

GO BIG RED!!

Although this year they have made me burst into tears. Literally. Good thing they fired Pederson the other day, we still have hope.

Comment Number:: 4
Written by:: m.guenther
Posted on:: October 17, 2007 at 10:30 am

Hello Josh and thanks for posting.

Always good to hear from a fellow Husker-and I agree I was relieved to hear that Pederson was fired. I also heard that good ‘ole Dr. Tom O was hired as the interim AD. That’s a good start!

As far as IE-I agree 6 is worthless, and as an all CSS tableless designer, 7 isn’t a whole lot better!

But, thats my 2¢

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