It has come to my attention (actually, I knew it already, but it has now been pounded into my face, thanks to a colorful graphic on my new MeasureMap alpha account) that 3 out of 4 people who visit my site are using the browser Internet Explorer. Now, I know this site looks a little screwy in IE, and I’m going to work on that eventually. I’m not going to do the paternal thing and punish IE users. That’s stupid. I’m not going to make a lot of special accomodations for IErs, but I’m not going to shake a finger at you either. What I am going to do, however, is encourage you to just drop by the Firefox website and download the latest version. Check it out. Try it on. It’s not going to hurt your computer, it’s not going to ask to overwright any files and it’s not going to sleep with your girlfriend. To put it short and simple, Firefox is just better than IE in every way. It’s more secure, it’s faster and it adheres to web standards so the pages you visit look more like what the author wanted them to look like.
It’s not hard to learn. It will even import a lot of your IE settings, and it has things IE doesn’t (such as RSS support). I’m not proselytizing here, because I’m admittedly a Safari user for the most part. All I’m saying is give it a shot. I think you’ll like it.
AMEN! We try and we try, but where does it get us?
I’m wondering what IE 7’s gonna look like, whenever it’s released. Probably like Firefox did a year ago.
“adheres to web standards so the pages you visit look more like what the author wanted them to look like.”
…unless they were lazy and coded them for IE!