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Lazy developers want IE to stay in Windows

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worker201:
Personally, I think it is terribly clever that you could type a url into any window in XP and be taken away to the internet.  My primary complaints about IE have to do with its shitty security, its haphazard support for web standards, and its shitty-ass Microsoft UI.  The OS-integration functionality is great.  Imagine how awesome it would be if Firefox was your window manager.  Tabbed browsing, folder bookmarks, tagging, dynamic preview content, etc.

The saddest thing about IE/Windows integration is that they didn't do anything cool with it.  For them, it was all about the systematic destruction of Netscape, not enhancing the user experience.

Calum:
okay, but the complaints you make against IE are huge, by comparison to the minor perceived benefits you mention. Plus, yes, it'd be great if firefox was functionally integrated with the OS, but IE was not just functionally integrated, it was integrated in a similar way to two siamese twins sharing the same liver, not healthy for either.

Functional is one thing, crippled and compromising each other's integrity is another.

Plus, i think you'll find that enhancing the user experience is low on microsoft's priority list, same as those independent developers mentioned earlier. they're like western governments in this regard, instead of giving the punters what they want, just repeatedly bully them over and over into thinking they want whatever crap's being forced down their throats and then if they complain, just ignore them. The public/consumers'll soon get the idea that they have to take what they're given whether they like it or not.

bob_v5:
"Of course I am biased, because I do not connect my home Windows machine to the internet ever, so I couldn't care less what browser is installed."

If that is the case, wouldn't you be better with no browser at all? All this "XML/ internet stuff" in windows seems like they just cant be bothered to program things properly to me.

"There are unfortunately quite a few applications that want IE to render an in-program browser window for them. AIM and Valve's steam come to mind -"

Perhaps you should avoid steam? (Of course I am biased on that! I couldn't play half life 2 at the time it was released because I had no internet, and they have not received a penny from me since.) And I'm almost certain you could find an alternative to AIM.

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