What I really hate about Internet Explorer…
If you are a web developer/designer you will at some point in time run into some browser differences. The site might look fine in Opera and Firefox, but in good old IE something is clearly wrong… There is always something! Yes, it irretates everybody and that aside, its not really why I hate IE.
I hate IE due to the fact that everybody that has a computer with Windows on it, never even had a choice if they want it or not. Their computers is infected with IE as soon as they install Windows. I’m not saying that its wrong to install a browser by default. Hell, if you install Linux, you get a choice of 4 or 5 browsers! And THAT folks, is my point. At least give Windows users a choice!
The problem is (and specially in South Africa where the internet is still fairly new) home users do not know better. They do not know of Firefox or Flock or Opera. They know only of IE and as far as they are concerned, there is only 1 browser. We spend lots and lots of time just telling our clients of other options and even hand it out on cd’s when we’ve developed a site for them.
Apparently, IE7 is quite an improvement on IE6. It supports tabbed browsing, add-ons, better security than IE6 and apparently they’ve fixed some of the quirks that used to be in version 6. Thing is if everybody needs to download it (i.o.w. it didn’t infest the user’s computer when Windows was installed), it will not get that much support. Then again, I’m sure Microsoft will find a way for IE7 to install itself on IE6 users computers. And wait for the release of Windows Vista! Guess what the only browser option will be on there!
Another point is one characteristic of spyware is that it does not give you an uninstall option. Guess what the one thing is that you cannot uninstall on Windows? You can remove the shortcuts from your desktop and start menu, but you can not uninstall it. Actually I’m sure you can by hacking the registry, but thats not for everybody.
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