IE. The horror

phannon86

I encountered this for the first time last week, my first proper experience of web development (as a hobby, I'm gladly doing winforms at work). It amazed me how Microsoft's own controls don't even display properly (or how you'd expect at least). FF and Opera gave me what I wanted, Safari and Chrome needed some kind of back-end workaround but they interpreted the generated HTML properly.

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Nagy Vilmos

Oo oo! I know suggest a survey: Is IE: - Crap - Really crap - So crap, other crap things call it Mr Crappy Crap-Crap - I don't use IE

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Rage

Curious. Every time I complained about IE here, I got seriously voted down. So far, you have only been up-voted. Seems like IE's being good or not also depends on who says it. :) Anyway, I am forced to work with IE6 and the rendering engine is indeed one solid piece of crap.

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Simon Capewell

I feel your pain. We came up with a postback free multi layered modal popup interface using the Ajax Control Toolkit. Worked great in Firefox. IE utterly utterly ballsed it up with elements incorrectly Z ordered, mouse clicks falling through to the wrong elements. Moral. Build your concept layout in Firefox, but be sure to test it properly in IE before committing any time to it. And still the end users say "why would I want to use anything other than IE". How about using a browser that doesn't need to spend 3 seconds "connecting" to about:blank. WTF is there to connect to?

Chris Maunder

IE6 is about 17%. Enough to be frustrating.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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Chris Maunder

You're a bad man Hans. A bad man.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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Chris Maunder

It's because I used 'moral turptidude'.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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Hans Dietrich

Timing is everything. Or in this case, timezone is everything. In a few hours, the IE is god's gift to HTML crowd will log on, and Chris will be severely reprimanded and forced to set his screen background to poofy pink. :)

Best wishes, Hans

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benjymous

if( IE6 ) { redirect "/Articles/FFSGetFirefox.aspx"; }

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Roger Wright

And we're glad you did. :-D Despite your peculiar spelling here... ;P

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Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

Two years ago I had an opportunity to proof beyond a reasonable doubt that all flavors of IE suck at complex DOM operations; this poor guys code had to be completely trashed because of it. Could you describe your particular problem so we can all share in the hatred? (or is it posted in the ASP.NET forum?) Moral Turpitude, what are in Georgia now?

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Paul Watson

That is high for a tech website. Wonder if it is from corporate machines not allowed to upgrade or IE users who don't like the IE7 UI.

cheers, Paul M. Watson.

Paul Watson

You could rename the Soapbox to that for awhile, see how people react.

cheers, Paul M. Watson.

Paul Watson

Simon Capewell wrote:

about:blank. WTF is there to connect to?

http://microsoft.com/analytics/user.aspx?visited=about%3Ablank&ip=192.168.1.1

cheers, Paul M. Watson.

ToddHileHoffer

Let me just tell you. I program standard corporate applications for internal use on the company's intranet. I have IE7 and FF installed on my machine. My users have IE6. They can't upgrade because JDE (our expensive accounting app) has not been updated and breaks in IE7. Anyway, I have wasted countless hours "fixing" my applications to work correctly in IE6. IE7 is bearable but IE6 is just awful.

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Simon Capewell

If they're collecting data like that, it'd be no wonder their online division is losing money!

Rob Manderson

Chris Maunder wrote:

It's fit only for street urchins, persons of low repute and those engaged in moral turptitude

Probably explains why I like it!

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Vikram A Punathambekar

The only place I use IE is at work. I have IE7 because IE6 horribly broke down on my machine and the IT guys decided to grant me an exception and install IE7. Everybody else (all thousands of them) use IE6. All other browsers are banned.

Cheers, Vıkram.

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vaghelabhavesh

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

All other browsers are banned.

Any specific reason for doing that? I can understand an organization don't use it if they are paid, but almost all browsers are free to download and use then why they are banned. Is MS paying your company to banned all other browsers? :-)

Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

A lot of companies "ban" software. It usually has more to do with the approved list and not allowing any user to install software that is not approved because most users would still expect support.

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