Comments on: Microsoft announces IE is dead

By: Matthew Rodriguez

Matthew Rodriguez — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:33:01 +0000

I really would like sheet music to the easy version of the Mario Theme Song (for beginners). I would like it if one of the people here could possibly reply to me with a website or something.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:08:15 +0000

I thought this was an interesting blog until I saw all of the defensive garbage piled on by the M*Soft propogandists. Sure point you finger at Apple. The fact is, though, that if you have ever written something more than basic HTML you know that IE is truly and without a doubt the WORST browser on the market by a longshot! The fact that it has such a majority only means that IE suckitude has brought the internet to a standstill in terms of innovation. You want to see progress? Figure out how to get 50% of the people to drop IE and you’ll see innovation again.

By: Bugs

Bugs — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:44:06 +0000

I can’t see why Microsoft wouldn’t build tabs in windows. Their standard business practice has always been to take one idea, watch what the market is attracted to, and then redesign that idea to match what the competitors have identified. In this case, it appears that the browser-wars…Are back.

By: Overlord

Overlord — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:06:55 +0000

Tabbed browsing is the gayest thing to ever be invented, k thx.

By: Dr_Nick

Dr_Nick — Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:24:01 +0000

My take? MS isn\’t done yet. First, a little biased background. IE is a first generation browser. IE doesn\’t really have any major UI enhancements over the original Mosaic browser. Second generation browsers have tabs like NetCaptor and others (NetCaptor was the first – Opera, Mozilla, Netscape, Safari, and others added them much later). Microsoft can\’t take IE to the next level without adding tabs.

Here\’s the kicker – MS can\’t add tabs without making major changes to the Windows shell. IE\’s great strength was its integration with Windows, but that\’s now its greatest weakness. MS can\’t add tabs to IE without adding tabs to Windows, and I think that\’s exactly what they will do. Countryman said: \”Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS\”.

Pasted from the Netcaptor Site…

By: Dr_Nick

Dr_Nick — Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:21:42 +0000

You could download NetCaptor, it\’s a very good browser that only uses IE\’s core… So no software bugs, and still software-updates… The only catch? It\’s shareware. :\’(
http://www.netcaptor.com/

By: steve

steve — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:43:55 +0000

If it is a public website, and a programmer designed it for only one browser, it may be working as designed, but the design itself is broken.

If it is an internal company web application, then it\’s reasonable to design it for only one browser.

By: Arthur Van De Lay

Arthur Van De Lay — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:56:27 +0000

Is a website \”broken\” when it\’s functioning as the programmer intended? – The programmers program for IE, it works for IE but nothing else. I wouldn\’t call that broken – it\’s working as it was intended.

Just as an aside, Microsoft did do something good with IE — They made it FREE – Don\’t know about the Mac platform, but on Windows before IE, all the browser companies were charging for the browser software (unless you were a student/non-profit). Now they\’re all free.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:15:55 +0000

That\’s why you should have both! Use the better one for 95% of your browsing, and fire up the junk one when you get to a broken website.

It\’s not like you\’ll be able to uninstall IE anyway!

By: Arthur Van De Lay

Arthur Van De Lay — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:43:59 +0000

This must be your longest running thread…
The reason I remain with IE is that some webites I use at work only support IE. Essentially this is the same reason that I don\’t use a Mac. -The Mac may be better, but my applications require a PC. Opera/Mozilla may be better (and IE may be GARBAGE), but IE will run the applications, and Opera or Mozilla won\’t.
Innovation is nice, but if the websites I\’m using require IE, then I don\’t have a compelling reason to switch.