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Perception is killing Internet Explorer

Too bad, I guess. IE 9 is quite solid. It also enables great web browsing battery life on laptops unlike Chrome.

EDIT: Firefox is the best for web browsing battery life.
 
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what's really killing IE9+ are corporate applications that require IE6-IE8...
 
This summed it up for me:
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I don't know... I am a die hard MS fan but I am never able to to get warm and fuzzy with IEs... not even IE9, I keep going back to FF. Not even chrome, I am somehow hooked to FF...
 
Meh. It's really Microsofts own fault, they have to many users split across versions instead of unifying and pushing out updates like Google or Mozilla do. It also doesn't help that IE9 still isn't as good as Chrome. It's better than IE8 by far, but still has to many issues for me to switch over to it.
 
If IE wasn't the exception to every "rule" in web design, I might actually use it. Nothing irks me more than designing a website that works wonderfully in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, mobile browsers, etc., but IE7/8/9 throws a fit.

IE9 is a bit better in that regard, but IE6/7/8 left a very bad taste in my mouth. We've completely dropped IE6 from our supported browsers list at work, and IE7 will follow soon (though all of our major framework / applications still work in IE6/7, just styling may not be pretty).
 
Ns1 said:
what's really killing IE9+ are corporate applications that require IE6-IE8...
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That, and it takes microsoft years to release a new browser.

We use an internal website for database entry, the site will not work with IE8. Its either hire developers to redo the site, or use IE7.

Or better yet, make IE8 so that its reverse compatible. But we all know how microsoft hates to make stuff reverse compatible. I think part of microsofts problem, they still think this is the 1990s and they are the only browser in the market.

The days when microsoft controlled access to the internet are over.
 
Texashiker said:
That, and it takes microsoft years to release a new browser.

We use an internal website for database entry, the site will not work with IE8. Its either hire developers to redo the site, or use IE7.

Or better yet, make IE8 so that its reverse compatible. But we all know how microsoft hates to make stuff reverse compatible. I think part of microsofts problem, they still think this is the 1990s and they are the only browser in the market.

The days when microsoft controlled access to the internet are over.
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Your devs should be kicked in the balls for not using standards. If standards are used, any compliant browser would work.
 
Ns1 said:
I guess my devs should be kicked in the balls too

isn't this rather...common?
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Yea, it's too common. It's problem that doesn't have to be. Years ago, when IE6 was the only player, there was at least a half-assed excuse, but anything made since the age of Firefox should be standards based.
 
lxskllr said:
Yea, it's too common. It's problem that doesn't have to be. Years ago, when IE6 was the only player, there was at least a half-assed excuse, but anything made since the age of Firefox should be standards based.
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I guess that's the problem, we're using systems/applications that predate firefox :biggrin:
 
CurseTheSky said:
If IE wasn't the exception to every "rule" in web design, I might actually use it. Nothing irks me more than designing a website that works wonderfully in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, mobile browsers, etc., but IE7/8/9 throws a fit.

IE9 is a bit better in that regard, but IE6/7/8 left a very bad taste in my mouth. We've completely dropped IE6 from our supported browsers list at work, and IE7 will follow soon (though all of our major framework / applications still work in IE6/7, just styling may not be pretty).
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We dropped 6 recently, they just pushed 8 out to people. Every time we have a meeting or I find a bug in our one of our sites with IE7, I'm always pushing for them to drop support for that as well. We have so many different quirks we have to do to get the sites to look exactly the same in IE7, IE8, IE9, Chrome, FF and Safari. Not to mention the JScript engine in IE8 BLOWS compared to the newer browsers. I add a note that we should only support the newest version of IE every time I have to push something out that required me to web test it, even though I know it's completely unrealistic.
 
lxskllr said:
Yea, it's too common. It's problem that doesn't have to be. Years ago, when IE6 was the only player, there was at least a half-assed excuse, but anything made since the age of Firefox should be standards based.
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So why are you kicking his devs in the balls, rather than microsoft? I'm designing a website right now using standards - specifically CSS level 3, and microsoft did a fucking poor job of supporting that in their newest browser - it continues to look different than every other browser.
 
Ns1 said:
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what's really killing IE9+ are corporate applications that require IE6-IE8...
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Yup. We have a project due to land IE8 in Q2 2012, after a sizeable regression piece against all Web UIs, Intranet sites and the like.
 
That is a great article and I bet it's spot-on. I've been on the net for a very long time and I grew to hate Internet Explorer as we all did. After I switched to Chrome I never looked back. IE may even be better than Chrome now but you know what I don't give a sh*t. Chrome works fine for me and causes me no frustrations. IE is dead to me.
 
RichUK said:
Yup. We have a project due to land IE8 in Q2 2012, after a sizeable regression piece against all Web UIs, Intranet sites and the like.
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you mean require IE8?

Same here, except Q1 2013...

FWIW, my desktop machine just got IE8 this year.
 
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