For those of you that don't know Internet Explorer has had
issues with standards compliance in the past. IE will largely ignore the standards and do what they want because they have 70% of the browser market. When IE7 launched, it broke many pages, because they were made to display in IE6, and 7 fixed alot of bad coding in 6. Microsoft
wants to avoid this problem with IE8, and has made it standards compliant, as well as offering a backwards compatibility mode.
The only problem is, to display web pages in older browser modes
you have to add a codein this example the web page is built to run in IE7 and Firefox 2. The big issue with this is that there will be billions of pages that DON'T have the tag because most won't know it exists, and the page will load horribly. I for one am waiting for that web breaking day of release for IE8, and am saying "Switch to Firefox"
5 comments:
Internet Explorer is to the internet as John Madden is to football. Both aren't liked very well, both are annoying, yet people still go back to them because it is familiar and people find security in familiarity. Nice picture by the way, "It's feeding time!"
Who does'nt like John Madden. I love John Madden. I thought all of America agreed in loving John Madden. Your words hurt me bad Mr. Zero.
I would agree, I'm not very tech savvy but I've always used Firefox because Internet Explorer does have many issues and tends to load pages slower.
I truely believe that Internet Explorer is so much better than Firefox from an acessibility standpoint. To me really, the layout is generally the same, same buttons. The browser support for IE is a lot more, and personally, I'll stay with IE7 and when IE 8 comes out, I'll download that!
I really don't care what I use... as long as I get the internet. I do like firefox, but i just am too lazy to download it to my laptop
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