Internet Explorer (IE) Is A Piece Of CRAP!
January 2nd, 2009 by Richelo Killian ·
FireFox KILLS IE!
Internet Explorer (IE) is the biggest piece of crap to EVER see the light of day!
Anyone who has ever developed any type of website that uses any advanced HTML or CSS will tell you that it is a nightmare to make their site work properly in IE.
Microsoft, in all their infinite wisdom, has decided that industry standards are just for the poor fools who do not have billions of dollars lying in their bank accounts.
Microsoft is just to good for the rest of the world. Why on earth would they make IE standards compliant when they can just do whatever the hell it is they want to do?
The search bar you see on the right, USED to be inside the menu bar.
In FireFox, it displays exactly as it should, and as it was intended, BUT, in IE, it just drops out of the menu bar, and sits on top of the post title.
So, I was forced to remove it, and use the crappy search widget to get it to display properly on the site.
Right, so, search working, and not covering the title.
All is well now with my site in IE I THOUGHT!
So, I go and add the fancy tabs to display recent posts, recent comments and tag cloud. Works 100% in FireFox.
Guess what?
It does not work in IE! What a surprise!
Now I have to figure out a way to get that to work again as well!
Thanks Microsoft for making my site development time more than triple! This site would have been done 2 days ago if it wasn’t for the piece of crap called Internet Explorer!
I think I am going to go and make myself one of these: http://chisa.deviantart.com/art/tutorial-IE-voodoo-doll-65352093
Let me know some of the fun YOU have had developing a site, and getting it to work in IE?
Tags: Bugs, IE, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
I know exactly what you mean, it drives me up the wall too. I use Firefox for browsing myself but of course have to check out all of my websites in IE as it is still the most used browser. I make a few changes in Dreamweaver, which look great in Firefox, but on flipping over to IE something almost inevitably goes wrong.
In fact I didn’t check out a very small change to one of my sites once,thinking it wouldn’t cause any problems, but of course it did. The display was all over the place!
It’s time Microsoft used some of their billions to putting this right as most others already have.
Hey Terence,
AMAZING how the simplest and smallest change to a site can work perfect in FF, and TOTALLY mess things up in IE!
Well, as we DON’T have the billions, AND because developers are the minority, not enough people bitches at MS to fix their SHIT!
There could be a flip side to things, where people like myself who do use IE, and when we check out our sites in FF, they look out!
However there are a couple of reason I’ve stuck with IE, the first being that it’s the only browser I’ve ever used in my entire life. And the second, is that FF just doesn’t do it for me. Something doesn’t sing, but then maybe after a few weeks of playing with it, then it WOULD look better?!
I may decide to switch, but for the time being I’m going to stick with IE7 installed on this machine. Thinking ahead though, is IE8 not mean’t to be a completely different browser if you think about it enough.
Someone told me (or I read it), that the Microsoft Developers completely rewrote the bowser, and also made it more compliant?! Am I right, or just talking a load of rubbish?
Now where’s my IE beat’s up FF icon gone?… LOL
Thanks
Mark
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Hi Richelo
I completely agree with you. I’ve personally spent countless and frustrating hours trying to tweak a site to work satisfactorily in IE (site that works perfectly well in just about every other browser you can find).
Years ago, when Microsoft also had IE for the Macintosh, they couldn’t even get their latest Mac version to display web sites the same as their PC version! This is from one of the wealthiest companies in the world! How crazy is that?
Rather than focusing on providing insanely great products and a great user experience* (like another company I could mention, but I won’t go there
… ), my own perception – based on over 20 years experience in the IT industry – is that their primary concern is with making as much money as they can from their punters whilst trying their best to lock the punter into using only their products!! Hence the apparent lack of concern to adhering to industry standards with their web browser.
*The great number of antitrust complaints and filings against Microsoft over the years suggests to me that rather than focusing on creating exemplary products, they would instead go to great lengths to try to crush their competition when they feel threatened (that’s putting it mildly – I want to stress to anyone reading this that I’m expressing my own view here!).
There are many instances of open source software products developed by humble enthusiastic programmers working from home performing better in the market than Microsoft’s expensive and branded products. You’ve just mentioned one…
Regards
Brad
Amen to that! And to add insult to injury, IE is like an old sick donkey in terms of speed. WHEEZING along while Firefox sprints around light as a feather.
Google Chrome is pretty good, too, though…
Hey, world: stop using IE, please. Because it’s just a HUUUGE pile of crap, indeed, even worst it is made by the greedy sick minded microsoft corporation. Internet will be much more beautiful without IE!!!
I completly agree. Anytime I develop some website with advanced CSS, its ALWAYS IE the one that complains forcing me to spend additional time to fix IE rendering errors. IE this IE that, IE position:inherit; ‘Durrrrr whats inherit? For gods sake IE has the wealthier company standing behind.
Richelo
Totally agree with you.
Had some recent complaints that many of our links were not working so that parents could register their kids in our program.
So I checked out everything in Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Explorer. The problem was Explorer! Explorer is a piece of crap!
What I’m thinking of doing is putting a small noticeable message on our welcome page that states: Warning! This website does not function properly using any Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Please use the following browsers for best results: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Opera. Internet Explorer does not adhere to Industry Standards like other browsers. We can no longer afford to support it.
I have spent countless hours trying to get things to work in Explorer for years, and I’m tired of it. Can we start a revolution by asking people who visit our websites to use a browser that works?
I’m ready!
Michael Moonbird