Re: Thank You

Ted Zieglar wrote:
As if the world cares...

Perhaps surprising to you is that the world actually does care. And the fact that more and more people are moving away from Internet Explorer in favor of superior web browsers is more than enough proof that they do. Heck, even Microsoft cares or they would just let alternative browsers nibble at their toes until Internet Explorer faded into history.

I'll be the first to admit, Internet Explorer was nice in its day. It's now time for a replacement. Microsoft is building a replacement, but have demonstrated and publicly announced that they will not follow the standards, which means that web development is going to continue to be very much frustrating to those of us that prefer to do things the *correct* way.

It isn't that the majority of the people believe Internet Explorer is the best browser in the world. It's that they are misinformed and perhaps haven't heard of the alternatives. For the majority of those that *have* heard of the alternatives, but haven't made the switch it's that they are either frightened of change or (in the *very* rare occasions) have tried alternatives, and just prefer Internet Explorer.

Of all the people that I have switched to Firefox, not even a single one has looked back. And I'm talking about people in the hundreds that I have personally converted. Who knows how many people they've recommended the browser to.

Finally, I'm not refusing to use Internet Explorer because it's a Microsoft product. Rather, I prefer Firefox and Opera because they are far more standards compliant (though admittedly neither is perfect) and have much better support for CSS than IE. Tabbed browsing and a plethora of wonderful extensions to choose from, also make my choice quite an easy one. Additionally, neither browser has had near the track record for dangerous exploits as IE.

Instead of encouraging Microsoft to continue to develop broken software, why not do us all a favor and do a little research before posting your comments? You'll find that this actually affects you more than you realize in more products than you realize.

I remember a comment made by a Microsoft associate at one time that went something to the affect of "open source does not mean open standards". That may be true --albeit uncommon. Interestingly enough, however, Microsoft might as well have shot themselves in the foot with that comment because using Microsoft products almost certainly guarantees either closed or poorly implemented standards, which inherently results in more frustration when designing a network infrastructure with platforms other than Windows or other Microsoft products.

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Sean
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