Comments on: 5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Internet Explorer

By: rhys

rhys — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:47:50 +0000

I don’t like IE, IE is so old now, lacks of many functions and slow . I suggest Firefox, free and quick, many delicious Add-ons

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:18:55 +0000

I used to be a hardcore IE supporter and all of those “drop IE, switch to Firefox” people used to tick me off until I upgraded to IE7. I reinstalled it at least three times with no luck. Now, my IE6 doesn’t even work. It’s even buggier than IE7. So, I just use Opera and Firefox now. One of my main complaints with IE7 was the problems with cookies. It wouldn’t let me log into Yahoo, and it never saved my changes in my webhosting control panel. Very frustrating. Now, I only use IE when programs like Messenger open windows (Yahoo Mail) automatically.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:54:24 +0000

Well… really great that you don’t like it. Thanks for sharing. Now can you share some more details about your (very general) objections towards IE? Because quite frankly, this is not helpful to any web developer (mainly because every developer has to deal with IE’s 85%+ market share).

And I’m no IE lover…

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:33:09 +0000

Not cross platform – web developers on linux have a hard time testing their sites in IE. Thank God for IE4Linux

By: kangax

kangax — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:48:39 +0000

Oh cmon, how about a more concise explanation?

Which version of IE, first of all?
IE7 is much closer to web standards than IE6, still, talking about JS support it’s far from Gecko’s and Webkit’s implementations…

Can we, please, have more precise points next time? : )

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By: xErath

xErath — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:09:17 +0000

just make sure that you don’t post unaccurate things like “I don’t like that the tab visited tab gets focused when I close the current”, or “Opera has a cluttered interface”

@John, IE’s support for scripting in xslt is through proprietary browser extensions, and it deliberately left many strict error treatment out, simply to be able to render more invalid documents.

By: John Perkins

John Perkins — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:34:51 +0000

The biggest short coming of all browsers is their lack of support for XSLT 2.0 and in some cases the weak support for XSLT 1.0. Opera and Safari are catching up with Firefox in support of XSLT 1.0 but IE is still the best at supporting XSLT 1.0 because of its ability to support scripting inside XSLT.