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thank god for safari... by far the best... 
Re: Why we hate IE
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by Persistence on Thursday, September 02, 2004 (01:55:12)
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A lot of my site features will not work with gecko based browsers. My fading blocks, for instance, which look so nice with IE aren't faded with firefox. I do like many of firefox's tools and features and I agree that it is far more secure, but I cannot build my site to conform to gecko standards when over 96% of my users are browsing with IE. That is why I do not use Gentoo Linux (my preferred OS) when building my website. I use a secured windows XP and IE because I need to view my site the same way my users are viewing it so I know what is working and what isn't. At the moment the fading code is the only code on my site which has proven to be unviewable in Firefox. I love Linux, make no mistake, but I have found that many open source operating systems and applications are simply being coded by too many people with strong (and unreasonable) bias against Microsoft. So unreasonable, in fact, that their users suffer for it. Take my fading block for example. Could the open source programmers build firefox so that it would support all IE code? Sure they can. They simply don't do it because they feel it is beneath them. Well beneath them or not, it is holding them back in the war against windows. I am a security freak so I personally prefer having IPTables defending my machine. Most people, however, do not know, understand, or even care about security. All they care about is that they cannot always watch their favorite movies or play their favorite games in Linux because the OS doesn't support the games and usually winex doesn't either. I can browse to any site on the web with IE, click any media files and view it with no hassles. With mozilla it takes an act of congress to view anything at all and the other 95% is unviewable. Yes, I could probably sit and code my OS for 20 hours and fix some of this but why should I do it if it's developers are too lazy to? The operating system is supposed to work for me...not vice versa. When I browse to areas where I need security I use linux. When I browse secure sites I use XP and IE. My XP scores 9,999,999 with nmap and its sockets are 100% filtered. You simply cannot get more secure than that. XP can be secured, just not by your average bear. http://www.grc.com has many excellent one click tools designed to secure it.
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