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From: SciArt-L Discussion List-for Natural Science Illustration- [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of jeremy swan
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 8:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [SCIART] Zoomify me! at GNSI Conference site

 

I'm trying really hard not to rant about how bad microsoft and internet explorer suck.  As a web developer, dealing with the inadequacies of internet explorer has become the bane of my existance.  It's hard to beleive 85% of web browsers are ie, It's really the worst browser out there.  It hasn't been supported on macs in 5 years, yet if you look at stats, people still use it, even on mac platforms.  If you are using ie, get firefox! www.getfirefox.com

The paragraph below is from wikipedia.  The entire article can be found here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#Usability_and_accessibility

Standards support

Other criticisms, mostly coming from technically proficient users and developers of websites and browser-based software applications, concern Internet Explorer's support of open standards, because the browser often uses proprietary extensions to achieve similar functionality.

Internet Explorer supports, to some degree, a number of standardized technologies, but has numerous implementation gaps and conformance failures—some minor, some not—that have led to criticism from an increasing number of developers. The increase is attributable, in large part, to the fact that competing browsers that offer relatively thorough, standards-compliant implementations are becoming more widely used.

Internet Explorer's ubiquity, in spite of its inferiority in this area, frustrates developers who want to write standards-compliant, cross-browser code and the advanced functionality it provides, because they are often stuck coding pages around Internet Explorer's bugs, proprietary featureset, and missing standards support instead.

Web developers must work with the least advanced technology across all browsers they wish to support, and Internet Explorer is often criticized for being technically obsolete. For a long-standing concrete example, see Internet Explorer's poor PNG transparency support.

Also, certain websites have attempted to test Web browsers out, and find Internet Explorer to be slower than Opera but equal or faster than Firefox.^[21]