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Attack of the killer IE zomboids

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Interscope:
For me, It's slow, It's buggy as hell and it crahses all the time.

When I'm not using linux i'm using win95 with mozilla.

Calum:
okay, the reason i hate IE is because Microsoft made this browser (nevermind that it's made out of stolen software from other products), and their browser supports all sorts of nonstandard crap as well as real html.

There's an official html spec at w3c.org and people writing html are supposed to stick to that, so that all pages will display right in all browsers. Fine so far, if everybody sticks to that then we'll all get along great. Except:

Every time a new standard comes along, Microsoft tries to change it so much that it becomes a proprietary Microsoft format and you must use their programs, agree to their licences to use it. This is not very nice. In this case they suddenly released this browser that supported a bunch of nonstandard nonhtml crap for special effects and the like. Then they made it impossible to get a copy of windows (at the time a huge majority of home users used only this system) which didn't have this browser. You cannot even uninstall the browser if you do not want it.

Now this prompted some huge number of dumbasses to figure as follows: "If everybody has internet explorer, then i can start writing my webpages full of this new nonstandard html which good old Microsoft has kindly given to us!" and then they wrote their webpages in this shitty new Microsoft html and it began the whole problem of a bunch of shitty pages that could only be displayed in one browser or the other.

They compounded the issue, of releasing Frontpage, a program which allows even o non coding dunmbass to write html! you use it like a word processor, shifting blobs of colour around onscreen and putting photos of your cat in and so on, and the program writes the html for you, isn't that neat? NO it is not, because the html that is output is full of this nonstandard gibberish! There's no button in FrontPage to turn the "shithtml" function off, and not only that, they fleece you for a couple of hundred bucks just for the privelege!

Many morons took it and loved it. They never used a nonIE browser so they never saw any problem. Never mind that you are forced to pay for IE with every copy of windows, whether you want it or not (some say it's free, how can it be? is windows free just because the price is absorbed into the total cost if you buy a computer with it preinstalled? some salesmen would have you believe this is actually the case!).

So IE is responsible for disrupting the flow of sensible development, and breaking perfectly good accepted standards, and the makers of this glorious browser are guilty of ilegally forcing you to buy it, and also charging money for a companion product that only works with their shitty proprietary browser.

A long story, but typical of Microsoft.

So in answer, yes i hate IE "just because it's made by Microsoft" but DO NOT fall into the trap of thinking that that means i have no reason for hating Microsoft to start with.

voidmain:
Calum, that post should go into the featured articles section. In the old days, this was just an annoyance when "novice" web developers coded to non-standard M$ specs. Now it is more of a problem because Big Company sites code to this shit.  Almost all of them have an "MSN" wrapper (espn.com for instance). They all bastards!! And every one I run in to I let them know about it.  I suggest you do the same.

[ June 12, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Calum:
i may start, but i think the monster is being devoured from within anyway, and yes, people will have to adapt or die, meaning that this shitty html will not survive in the long term.

I must remember where this thread is, because that's about the fifth time i've typed out my reasons for not liking IE!  :D

Chooco:

quote:Originally posted by Chooco:
Calum why you being a bitch? i clicked on that link you gave and it started to pop up like 1000 IE windows all of them blank and would not stop, i had to actualy restart the friggin computer!

well that's because IE is a pile of shit. This has nothing to do with me. I posted links, they go where i said they go, i am using mozilla and have disabled popups so i don't know what you're talking about.

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no i meant LITERALY 1000 popups, i was not exaderating lol. btw, the latest Opera for Windows is 6.03 i think which can't make itself default.

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