Comments on: Internet Explorer Extinct By 2013?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:39:03 +0000

Come on ppl reply my comment plz! thxx

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:29:10 +0000

IE should not be extinct in 2013 its not fair!!! Why do we have the IE to be Extinct??

By: Search Engine Optimization Service

Search Engine Optimization Service — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:15:11 +0000

Hey,

The only reason MS give a crap about IE’s downfall is the lost advertising $$$ on that msn homepage that comes as default, every time a user opens their browser.

By: x-ymore

x-ymore — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:43:29 +0000

I am writing code for ie and firefox at the same time.
Firefox 3.0 erase some improvements of 2.x.
Ex: text-aling to center a page with div does nothing in ff 3, but is working in 2.x.
All my customers are using windows/ie, and i have not see any chanches. Windows + ie is more easy to learn and install for end users. My customers emploees know who to install xp, but does not now how to download linux, and less how to install it.
96% os people that i now, are xp users, and others are vista users.
Linux is my produtction environement. But not for development.

By: SneakyWho_am_i

SneakyWho_am_i — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:35:53 +0000

“OMFG” makes a point I don’t understand. Why point out that other browsers become more popular at an equal rate to that at which IE becomes less popular? Duh….. It would have to by definition, wouldn’t it?

“Rose” actually makes a pro-designing-for-IE argument that makes sense! If Internet Explorer is so bad, we should just stop writing code for it.

So, I have stopped writing code for it. Almost a year ago, in fact. Internet Explorer is ALREADY dead. Sites which NEED visitors, I make sure to send as text/html. For personal or noncommercial sites, I write code MY way, not the MS way. I like to write valid, well formed XML and serve it under an XML mime type.

I write one copy of each page, and give it one stylesheet. No hacks, no workarounds, nothing. IE may choke and fail, but all the other browsers get it right and that’s all that matters to me.

When I’m providing a service to everyone, I will at least explain to people that they need to upgrade their browser to view the content. It’s not a case of “You must be using browser X”, more a case of “You must not be using browser Y”.

Is web design about money? For some, yeah. Do you hate your job? If so, QUIT.
Web design is NOT about money. Web design is about the joy of creating something excellent.

Internet Explorer is a great handicap to this excellence and creativity. I celebrated its demise long ago.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:24:59 +0000

You guys all need to get a life. You got into the web design business knowing the issues with IE – whichever version it is – so just do your job and shut the *@#! up. Or find another source of income. And I wish you would (most of you) learn how to spell and proofread!

By: seazuvip

seazuvip — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:03:54 +0000

In China, the most popular browser is Maxthon ,base on IE…

For Firefox,google pay the website owner for visitor downloading the FF,so it’s just like a virus flooding ,so google would cancel the plan in the next month…

For Opera,it offer a faster way to visit the web,may be it would instead of FF.Till now ,we use opera on the mobile
phone more than on pc….

By: Richard Cherry

Richard Cherry — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:07:54 +0000

After vacillating between TABLE layouts and CSS style formatting i am still not comfortable with a purely either/or approach. So i utilize both-where appropriate.

Several interesting CSS instructional books on the market advise building complete web pages without resorting to the use of tables. They even encourage leaping ahead into CSS-3 syntax. This is fantasyland, because IE has a long way to go to become compliant with even CSS2.1; and it is still the dominant browser out there.

What to do?
I recommend using a good reference book-such as one that O’Reilly publishes-that lists every CSS element, selector, etc. along with the compatibility of each element in all the major browsers.

For simple 2 or even 3 column page layouts i will use CSS only-but the lack of IE compliance can ruin your day if you don’t have a handle on the support details.

By: buggy - IE

buggy - IE — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:07:47 +0000

yes, IE will lose more users, but not extinct.

By: seazuvip

seazuvip — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:09:20 +0000

Thank you for your writings….

I have translated it into Chinese and post in my blog..

Click here:http://www.copicosoft.cn/read.php/2.htm

IE would be the next NETSCAPE if the Microsoft has nothing done to solve the problem。。。