Why IE is a dog today and every other day....

[Rod Kemp]

AspDotNetDev wrote:

but is just text in IE

That would be because of this;

window.addEvent('domready', function () {
var isWebKit = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().match(/applewebkit/);
var isSupported = isWebKit || Browser.safari || Browser.firefox || Browser.chrome || Browser.opera;

if (isSupported) {
	new Root();
}
else {
	var body = document.id(document.body);
	body.style.background = "white";
	body.style.color = "#111";
	body.style.overflow = "auto";
	body.style.overflowX = "auto";
	body.style.overflowY = "auto";

	document.id("sections").style.display = "block";
}

});

If you spoof the user-agent string in IE10 the site displays just fine. But then, as he is an Appleite I expect such a half-arsed implementation. :rolleyes:

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[zenwalker1985]

I hate IE and i am damn forced to use it in office :(

My cUr10U5 w0rlD

[Slacker007]

killabyte wrote:

Does anyone else spend far to much time trying to get IE

to do anything? I am so glad I am not a web developer. I haven't touched IE for almost a year and I am better for it.

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[Pete OHanlon]

krumia wrote:

Microsoft's (or any organizations' for that matter) stubbornness for not adhering to standards will inhibit the prospering of the community and consequently reduce their future income. We can only hope they will know better.

So what browser would you recommend. Chrome? Oh wait, what about the WebKit extensions proposed for CSS 3? FireFox - oops, sorry, moz extensions there. If you are talking about adherence to standards, then a few things to contemplate: 1. You fall over before you get to HTML 5. It's not a standard. 2. Extensions drive features forwards. Microsoft's problem was not engaging with other browser providers to deliver their extensions as enhancements. 3. We are techies. For us, there's not a real issue with the concept of downloading an alternative browser. For other non-technical users, there is a real issue. 4. If someone is using Windows Phone, they cannot install another browser. So, a strategy of pushing users away because you haven't taken the time to make your site work in IE just lost you customers.

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[W Balboos GHB]

Yes - they/that really s#cks. Pet peeve: their lack of support for the text-shadow style is particularly onerous. I've a JavaScript to do the job, but the usefulness of considerable: if one's background is a photograph (for example), whatever choice of color one uses for text will either disappear at various locations (no contrast) or one must use hideous colors. With the text-shadow element, the text always shows well, either by its own merit or that of its shadow. Fortunately, they now account for just over 30% of the visitors to the sites I maintain. I wonder if anyone out in M$'s home office ever read that story about 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs.'

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[loctrice]

I keep an exe of the installer for firefox. That way I can install firefox, update it, and then get chrome without using IE :D

If it moves, compile it

[Linda chan]

krumia wrote:

I can suggest users to boycott IE, and ask developers to show the message "You're using the crappy IE browser. Get a 'real browser' now', if the users are using IE.

Sometimes I get message like this: small popup or big letters instead of actual page. I just close sites like this and find another. If they want this kind of reaction, it's really work.

[Manoj Kumar Choubey]

3 Month later , I was developed an application in asp.net, My client suggest me IE is one of the common browser and every thing should work in it. I was installed different version's of IE On more then two PC, and check my app. on all version's and I takes different results, I was also check my app. on firfox and Chrome I have Smiler result with little difference on both. in some case My experience the net speed was slow on it, as soon as i open IE there are may types of updates and popups open with it that is problematic and create delay in work.

[killabyte]

manoj kumar choubey wrote:

I was installed different version's of IE On more then two PC, and check my app. on all version's and I takes different results

this is prob the most anonying point of all ... it proves that they update the DOM rendering engine, just not in a good way

[Erling Limm]

It seems that I am the only one that is going defend IE here today ;) CSS3 gradients is implemented in IE10, and comes with Windows 8 in oktober. As for IE9, the only stuff of real everyday value that's missing is gradients and text-shadow, but they're long over due indeed. The positive thing about IE9 is the speed. It's awesome at animations containing rgba backgrounds, transparent pngs and shadows etc. IE9 wins over all browsers on this one. I notice this all the time on the project we're working on at work right now. IE9 really excels with its buttery smooth animations. As for the IE-team caring about standards, they're probably the team focusing on it the most right now, and also getting it right (which means without bugs). I believe it was on MIX they made fun of chrome because of the clipping bug in css3 columns. IE9 also does border-radius correct: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/BorderRadius/Default.html[^] while many of the other browsers don't. IE10 will probably blow away the competition _when_ it comes out.

[Ron Verheij]

Yep. I agree. And why did the "Crap" of Microsoft became the mostly used software OS and Explorer ?

[Khun Jean]

Let me play devil's advocate. Well i see it different. If IE is on 85% off all peoples computers and they use it everyday, that means THAT IS THE STANDARD. All the others are crappy. :) (remember vhs, betamax, v2000. The one with porn and the number of users won!) flame away!

[Lost User]

Jason Hooper wrote:

Ah yes.. obligatory..[^]

It reminds me of a funny IE adventure I had a long time ago. I was installing Windows NT 4.0 on a system, it was around year 2000 and IE3 I think was the IE version that came with it. Windows NT was before the Windows Update days, so I head up to Microsoft site to download the latest and greatest IE 5.0 and surprise! Microsoft's site wasn't even showing in IE3. Damn... I then went to Netscape's website, which loaded correctly in IE3 and downloaded and installed Netscape Navigator and with that browser I was able to view Microsoft's website and download IE5... Ironic, I had to use Microsoft's competitor to get to them...

[grimertop90]

I can only hope that anyone who has the know-how to spoof their user-agent string isn't still using IE.

[K Quinn]

Nope. I've never experienced most of the problems people talk about. I'm just lucky though, everyone else can't be wrong.

[K Quinn]

There's also the significantly improved f12 tools in ie9, in my opinion the best feature therein. I know everyone will cry 'BUT FIREBUG/CHROME DEVELOPER TOOLS.' Honestly? I find them garish and occupy more space than I care to commit to a UI for debugging an xml dom. I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a 'who needs an IDE when you have viedit' zealot, but I tend to grade my expectation of the UI complexity to the importance of the task. /bunnytrail

[gvidali]

Here is one striking thought that just crossed my mind… If 85% percent of users are still relying on (and possibly even like) Internet Explorer… so what are the “standards” we should strive for…?

[mattdbuk]

I wish I had a pound for every hour I have wasted of MY LIFE trying to get CSS to display correctly in Internet Explorer. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[DanKline]

Interesting question. I am just preparing to post a 4th post in a series on SharePoint 2010, CSS3 and HTML5. The result was a little surprising. My examples were with the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome, and Internet explorer versions 8 - 10. No suprise that IE8 was a non-starter. IE9 performed rendering (other than CSS3 Gradients for which the DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient work-around was required) better than both competitors and IE10 from the Developer Preview outperformed everything. I'm hoping Microsoft adds CssGradients to IE10, but even if they don't they have certainly demonstrated a commitment to HTML5 and CSS3. While your rant and frustrations are understood and deserved, it's also good to give Miscrosoft credit when it responds to the user community requests. Look at this Modernizr compatibility array from IE10 - there's not much missing here. ;) no-flexboxr flexbox-legacyr canvasr canvastextr no-webglr no-touchr geolocationr postmessager no-websqldatabaser indexeddbr hashchanger historyr draganddropr websocketsr rgbar hslar multiplebgsr backgroundsizer no-borderimager borderradiusr boxshadowr textshadowr opacityr cssanimationsr csscolumnsr cssgradientsr no-cssreflectionsr csstransformsr csstransforms3dr csstransitionsr fontfacer generatedcontentr videor audior localstorager sessionstorager webworkersr applicationcacher svgr inlinesvgr no-smilr svgclippaths

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[YipYipDog]

you don't know what you are talking about - not a single one of the browsers out there are compliant with with all the standards, and even the ones that "thnk" that they are compliant with is just a matter of opinion thats the trouble with just having browser standards and letting various companies determine for themselves what the standards actually mean and how to implement the browser functionality to "meet" those standards - in short the whole thing boils down to how the developers "interpret" the standards. in other cases they just outright choose not to support certain parts of the standards and that will be the problem with html5 - it sounds great, but we will have the same issues with html5 that we have now with certain browsers working one way and others doing something else when they are all reading the same code there is only one answer to this problem - have the same authority that writes the standards also test each browser and if it doesn't pass 100%, then it can not be released to the public till it is nothing more frustrating than to have to write 4 different variations of a html site just so it will render that same on all browsers - actually is not possible depending on what code you write as not all browsers have support for certain things in the css this is what makes Silverlight so great as a plugin - any code will work and render the same on any browser