Re: [PCWorks] What's The Big Hurry (Rant)?
- From: Peter Kaulback <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:00:30 -0400
I too have not used IE in quite a while. And do not see the need to use IE9.
What I have noticed in the recent time is that more and more servers
have been timed for broadband users only. Timeouts are happening more
and more on dial-up than ever before. But these changes are subtle, with
most resolutions being to disable the firewall, anti-phishing, anti
virus, etc. just to make a clean enough connection between a dial-up
modem and a web server.
One day there may be universal broadband coverage, it might even
coincide with universal acceptance of web standards and flying cars too ;)
Peter Kaulback
On 3/23/2011 6:34 AM, Hugh Vandervoort wrote:
> I haven't used IE in years. Beside the security risks (Especially with
> older versions) they have failed to innovate. Tabbed browsing and
> extensions as well as compliance with web standards let FF and Chrome
> outstrip IE many years ago.
> One reason IE is finally becoming usable is the competition from FF
> which lowered IE's market dramatically.
> The last thing web designers need is yet another piece of code to
> insert to save the people who hate change from themselves. I noticed
> that designers gave up on saving IE 6.0 users.
> Change is here to stay, and there's going to be a lot more in the future.
> I'm still fooling with FF 4.0, but it looks good so far.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
> <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> That's why "extorted" was in quotes........uhhhhh, SHOULD have
>> been in quotes, LoL. (It is now). I couldn't think of what
>> else to call it; when you go a webpage and are "attacked" by
>> all these banners b!tching about you having an "outdated
>> browser", when the only way to remove it is to "succumb to
>> their demands", or else put up with the complaints.
>>
>> Someone needs to come up with some kind of a banner blocker
>> that will also block those. I have no problem at all with some
>> simple TEXT saying something like: "Some of our web features
>> may not be available on older browsers" (which actually should
>> never be the case anyway), but obnoxious banners, and actually
>> BLOCKING users of older browsers, is uncalled for. YouTube WAS
>> doing this, evidently they caught hell for it, and they finally
>> did the intelligent thing and automatically direct certain
>> browser versions to different page versions.
>>
>> I've been watching a thread on FF4, last I heard they (no
>> surprise) REMOVED features that were present on 3.5x, and no
>> doubt none of our extensions will work on it, and there's
>> probably only a few of them that can be upgraded to work on v4.
>> They'll never overtake IE until they put a stop to that crap
>> and make extensions an integrated part of the Mozilla FF
>> browser or put a stop to the version-proprietary-dependence of
>> them. I'm sure extension developers are also fed up with
>> having to make new versions with each FF release. It's VERY
>> simple to make them work with any version, the majority of them
>> CAN be made to do this with a hack, but it's time-consuming and
>> should NOT be something the END USER should have to do, that
>> should be up to Mozilla.
>>
>> If it can coexist with v3.5x, I'll probably install it just to
>> see if it's any faster, and more stable.
>> -Clint
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