2004-06-07
New Design Is Finished
The new look is done, comments section and all. It looks fine in Mozilla browsers and Opera, but Internet Explorer still renders it incorrectly. Again, I'm not fixing this. Supporting Internet Explorer is, in effect, hindering the growth of web technology.
In a sense, Microsoft is like a company that invents new head styles for screwdrivers, not because there is a need for it, but just so they can be recognized as the creators of the new style. And then some product manufacturers decide to support the new screw head style. So what does this accomplish? Nothing, except that you now have to take into account one more style of screw heads when getting a screwdriver or making a product. There's no reason for Microsoft to do what they've done with Internet Explorer, and all it does is gets in the way of web developers who are trying to push for standards-compliance. Actually, the problem is worse than in the screwdriver analogy, in that Internet Explorer — as you can clearly see if you're viewing this site in it — doesn't support many of the preexisting standards and fails to keep up with the growth of newer ones, yet they are currently by far the most widely used browser (greatly due to two reasons: back when the only real competition was Netscape, Internet Explorer actually was the better browser in many respects, and it also comes packaged with Windows distributions, so most Windows users will see and use it, while few bother to take the time to replace it with something else, given the whole if it ain't broke, don't fix it
attitude). What most people don't realize is it is broken. Take a look at all of the security patches they constantly send out. Internet Explorer is the only browser that has this many security problems. It doesn't support alphatransparency in PNG's, dispite the fact that all other modern browsers do. Heck, it doesn't even have popup blocking, tabbed browsing support, or dozens of other extremely useful features that are now standard in newer web browsers. To top things off, it isn't any more user-friendly than Mozilla Firefox or Opera.
Anyway, my point is that if you're still using Internet Explorer, you should really get with the times and switch away from it. Microsoft has already announced that soon they will no longer be providing it for free and you can only get new versions by buying their new (and horribly expensive) operating systems.
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