Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed May 23 18:52:25 CDT 2012
My dislike does not extend to Microsoft. Over many years, trying to comply with IE's ever moving standard and the lack of standards itself has cost client's and myself many hours of wasted development time and money, in the web design business. If IE wishes to continue in the market place, it must comply with the W3C standards that they have signed off on. The issue that has bothered me the most is the absolute arrogance of the IE team, that they believe they should be able to direct the market, they do not need to work with any one, everyone must work for them and standards apply to others, no themselves. As soon as the product can demonstrate, modern features and a wiliness to match the industries open standards, I will discard my reserve and may even become a supporter again. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:35 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Internet Explorer You sure hate it, that's fairly evident ;-) I think that now the same thing is happening with Chrome being the default browser on a gazillion tablets and phones. It is what it is. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5:17 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Internet Explorer Those years of every tech, everywhere in the world, coming to a computer screen and saying, "OMG, please stand well back Madame/Sir from your computer; you are so lucky we got here on time." And then installing Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera, making it the default browser and finally removing all traces of IE, has finally produced the following results. http://tinyurl.com/7vxpqfe IE which at one time held almost 90 percent of the browser market, has slipped to 31.8 percent. You have to wonder, given these statistics, if IE was not installed on every copy of Windows, by default, being as it has been such a curse to every web developer, would it now be any more than a foot-note in the history of computing? Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com