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Why You Should Stop Using Internet Explorer
I'd like to attempt to explain the feelings I, as a web standards advocate and web professional, have about Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Why is IE so bad? Mainly because it's the least compatible browser when it comes to web coding standards, not to mention that it uses more of your CPU power than the other browsers.
But is it really that big a deal?
From a web designer's perspective, there are few things more frusterating than having to make your websites compatible across several different browsers, especially when Internet Explorer needs special tweeks and hacks just to get it to function "simliarly." Not only does this mean more time for the designer, but consequently, more cost for the client.
Instead, people should be using a browser like Firefox that is available on both PC and Mac, requires less CPU than IE, and adheres to all the web standards. Trust me, your web browsing experience will get faster, cleaner, and more consistant in quality.
Until IE launches a completely compliant version, you should seriously consider using a different browser. The differences at first will be subtle, but in time you'll realize you've been missing out.
- Microsoft, by not keeping Internet Explorer up to date as web development has moved into the era of open web standards, has caused web professionals all over the world a lot of grief. Prolonged development time (which equals reduced revenue) and many headaches and stomach ulcers have been caused to a large extent by Internet Explorer's incredibly frustrating behaviour. If the buggiest web browser browser with the buggiest CSS implementation in the history of the Web wasn't also the dominant one, I doubt many web professionals would bother with it.
- Internet Explorer problems aside, I think the most important reason for many web professionals being cynical and very sceptical towards anything coming from Microsoft is the respectless way Microsoft has been treating us. For years we've been begging for improvements to IE. The response we received was "You are not our customers".
- I want freedom of choice. Anything that can help preventing Internet Explorer from completely dominating the web browser market again should be promoted by each and every person that wants to be able to choose which computer to use, which operating system to use, and which web browser to use. If any single profit-driven company's web browser is allowed to dominate, the freedom to choose will be restricted. Most web developers are ignorant and lazy, and will take every shortcut they can. If those shortcuts mean shutting people out, they don't care unless the number of people shut out is significant enough to affect their earnings.
