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Subject:RE: Study: Internet Explorer Dominates the Web From:GhostWolf <ghstwolf -at- nemasys -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 May 2002 09:49:17 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Kieffer, Barry wrote:
>
> Netscape does not support ActiveX and a whole bunch of other (questionable necessary)
> HTML features.
>
> I can understand sticking with Netscape if you are forced to use UNIX or any of its
> cousins, but why limit yourself with Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, or any of the other
> wannabe browsers when Internet Explorer works well and is free?
Easy.
There are myriads of ActiveX bugs, worms, and viruses on the net; and plenty
of websites with poorly-coded ActiveX "features" that rather rapidly hose up
and, more often than not, blue-screen a Windows computer (hard experience,
school of hard knocks, and methodical experimentation/confirmation speaking here).
I use Opera and Netscape 6.2 with no problems on a Windows 2000 platform, and
Opera and Netscape 4.7 on Solaris, again with no problems.
I do have IE 5.5 on the W2K machine, but that is ONLY because certain financial
institutions that I must access have websites that work properly ONLY with IE.
I find that incredibly irritating (haven't they heard of basic accesssibility?).
An aside: When coding HTML, I do NOT use any of the browser-specific extensions,
period. That's simply being considerate, imNsho. The work and technical-writing
tie-in? Same thing applies - pure HTML, no standards. The Webworks publisher
and Adept conversions here at work generate HTML 4.01-compliant HTML; use of ANY
browser-specific extensions is absolutely verboten. Good thing, that.
Wolf Davidson
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