The 'what kind of browser do you use' thread

[Hubster]

Firefox. Until Safari has a stable non-beta release anyway

 

[Zephyrus]

safari

You get Leopard yet? I'm still using Tiger, which is perfectly fine given that I save $70 (student rate) by not upgrading.

 

[mutantllama]

Wait, so is this a real thread or am I having a dream about the lamest thread possible? Normally I do not dream about the internet and I would be alarmed if that were the case.

Anyway, firefox.

I say the lamest thread is the "Querf positive people" thread. But thats just me.

 

[CAIRATH]

but Internet Explorer is more compatible with certain web pages.

Sadly it's actually the other way around. Those webpages are more compatible with IE because they are poorly written. IE has generally been very poor when it comes to adhering and supporting the various web standards that exist.

Basically what happens is that Firefox and other good browsers expect web documents to adhere to these standards and when they don't the resulting page will usually not look as intended. IE however doesn't really care and pretty much attempts to display anything no matter how broken the actual code is and also deviates from or contradicts the standards in many areas, causing web pages that were written and tested specifically for IE (even if they don't contain any sloppy coding) to look bad on browsers like Firefox.

I've worked at a web development company (thankfully mostly doing back-end development unless we were really low on staff capacity) and have witnessed first hand the joys of getting complex websites to look good (or even just "the same") in both browsers. That is why IE is not exactly popular among web developers.

 

[The Ozzman]

Sadly it's actually the other way around. Those webpages are more compatible with IE because they are poorly written. IE has generally been very poor when it comes to adhering and supporting the various web standards that exist.

Basically what happens is that Firefox and other good browsers expect web documents to adhere to these standards and when they don't the resulting page will usually not look as intended. IE however doesn't really care and pretty much attempts to display anything no matter how broken the actual code is and also deviates from or contradicts the standards in many areas, causing web pages that were written and tested specifically for IE (even if they don't contain any sloppy coding) to look bad on browsers like Firefox.

I've worked at a web development company (thankfully mostly doing back-end development unless we were really low on staff capacity) and have witnessed first hand the joys of getting complex websites to look good (or even just "the same") in both browsers. That is why IE is not exactly popular among web developers.

Someone posted something very similar to this on another board I frequent after someone asked the question 'What's so bad about IE?'

 

[False Joe]

Firefox.

Opera is too slow, and IE is worse.

 

[sevag00]

Firefox. The best web browser.

 

[Triton]

Question: If I remove IE from my computer, will it affect any of my other programs or browsers, such as msn, firefox, itunes, windows media player, etc? just making sure that nothing bad will happen if I remove it.

 

[cookiecutter]

It will not do anything bad to any other program.

 

[Triton]

thanks cookiecutter.

 

[Valerie]

thanks cookiecutter.

You can call him Mr. Cool.

 

[cookiecutter]

You can call him Mr. Cool.

Please do

 

[Triton]

Changed my mind, cookiecutter is a fag.

Mr. Cool on the other hand is awesome.

 

[cookiecutter]

Changed my mind, cookiecutter is a fag.

 

[Triton]

Don't take offense, you're Mr. Cool now. unless you wanna be cookiecutter, who of course is not a fag.