Internet Explorer claims to be standards compliant (CSS 2.0), even after much
buzz and blogging about it only being in the fifties, instead of being up around Firefox and Opera's mid-ninety percent compliance mark. Is IE compliant or not? No matter where they actually are, many in the blogosphere still feel IE should be done away with.
StopIE is yet another IE hate site, and offers alternatives and reasons why IE is the worse thing to ever happen to the web. No matter how you feel on the subject,
StopIE at least made me laugh. I don't know why, but it just looks like an overtly political site on the dangers of IE. The site is well-designed, but it seems that they are taking the whole thing a little too seriously. Sure, I would rather use Firefox, and it is my choice, but I wouldn't so much as go on the offensive to stop the madness. Who knows, maybe torch and pitchfork wielding skills would rid the woods of the vermin. Maybe not.
Tags: Firefox, InternetExplorer, STOPIE
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Subscribe to commentsFilterSep 4th 2006 5:29PM
Is there any stopmicrosoft sites? :D
MagallanesSep 4th 2006 6:29PM
I'm a web development and the facts is while iexplorer take more that 80% of the market then iexplorer IS the standard, no matter if exist or not a written standard (w3c imho is only a figurative group).
There are many webpages claiming that support the standard but while they are unable to render correctly a webpage using iexplorer then they are only lossing visits a without visit a webpage worth nothing.
QwfwqSep 4th 2006 6:07PM
Sigh!
David RitchieSep 4th 2006 6:38PM
How old is this site? It claims Opera costs $39, which is free now.
SusanSep 6th 2006 3:24AM
Yeah, I agree with you. It does sound overtly political, and I think we have too much of that running around our society.
Bob JonesSep 5th 2006 8:15AM
Microsoft dominate the area, so whatever they do is the standard.
Wether, some crackpots at W3 claim to create 'A standard', doesn't matter.
milanSep 5th 2006 8:30AM
Internet Explorer CLAIMS W3C comliance, but the facts say otherwise. Any webdesigner can tell you that. With the arrival of Internet Explorer 7, which fixes some of the bugs used to trick Internet Explorer to render correctly, webdesigners will now have to mark a page up, fix it for Internet Explorer 6, then fix it for Internet Explorer 7. All because the most popular browser does not play fair.
AdamSep 5th 2006 8:57AM
Children, Children. Why go through all this fuss over IE. I dont see these people hating IE so much when such browsers like Opera and Firefox were non existent and they were using IE so much praising it and such, you wouldent complaign one bit. But no as soon as FF and Opera appear, you batter IE like its the worse application in history.
"Renders pages incorrectly. Web designers then need to spend extra time working so that pages work in Internet Explorer. "
Err, when has this been? I design websites and the majority of the time, time is needed to make sure the website works in FF, not IE at all.
All these people are doing is pointing out the good parts of FF and Opera and knocking IE for not having them and therefore labelling it "the world's most popular and worst internet browser".
Oh please!
Ryan CarterSep 5th 2006 10:03AM
Adam, I have pretty much always hated Internet Explorer, and wished there was something else, even before Firefox hit the scene. Now, I have options, and I am pretty happy with the Firefox I have today. IE just really doesn't do it for me. I still think StopIE is funny if nothing else. It is not all that serious as they make it sound.
Razib AhmedSep 5th 2006 10:15AM
Although internet explorer supports all formats and is the most famous browsers among ordinary people but it doesn't have some necessary facilities that make professional users some annoyed. I myself, try to use Opera as much as possible and when I have no alternative I use Firefox and in the end IE. Opera is fastest browser I have found so far. Also, the facilities Opera has the other web browsers especially IE don't have like copying link of a word with hyperlink without clicking on them and opening it in net page.