Thread

I’ve been turned off from Internet Explorer since version 6.  I’ve been using Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.  I’ve made the switch and it’ll be hard to make me go back.

I use Maxthon 2, which of coarse utilizes the Trident rendering engine, but it is still a much better browser the IE is itself. I also love the favorite services that Maxthon does. Allows you to save your favs to a server, and you can login anywhere with maxthon any maxthon and retreieve and update your favs.

The only time one should use IE7 is when they want to check if their website displays in IE7. And usually it displays crappy.

 
 
Please note this message is to all developers who have a low opinion of IE7.
 
Before testing your browser in IE7 run your preferred browser specific optimised code through these validators:

  http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_input+with_options
  http://validator.w3.org/

and if you want to go even further try this validator.

http://www.totalvalidator.com/index.html

 
Once you have eliminated all the errors, warnings and notifications then start complaining about IE7
 
Personally I use Firefox for developing and…
 
 
 
933

Look at this, it’s so funny !!
Microsoft’s opinion about FF and Chrome

What about me , I’m using Firefox under my Ubuntu, and switching between FF and Chrome under windows sistems and as every frond-end web developer HATE IE6[, 7, 8]. Even after Microsoft’s browser comparison chart 😊

 
 
Please note this message is to all developers who have a low opinion of IE7.
 
Before testing your browser in IE7 run your preferred browser specific optimised code through these validators:

  http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_input+with_options
  http://validator.w3.org/

and if you want to go even further try this validator.

http://www.totalvalidator.com/index.html

 
Once you have eliminated all the errors, warnings and notifications then start complaining about IE7
 
Personally I use Firefox for developing and…
 
 
 
933

Or you could just use the web developer toolbar plugin for firefox to check the validity of the markup, and I have had them validated to xhtml 1.1 and css2 and it still needs tweaking for IE, but if you take pride in your work you want everyone who sees the site to see it the same way you envisioned it, then you take the time to patch for inferior rendering engines.

 
Please note this message is to all developers who have a low opinion of IE7.
 
Before testing your browser in IE7 run your preferred browser specific optimised code through these validators:
...
...
...
Personally I use Firefox for developing and…
 
933

Or you could just use the web developer toolbar plugin for firefox to check the validity of the markup, and I have had them validated to xhtml 1.1 and css2 and it still needs tweaking for IE, but if you take pride in your work you want everyone who sees the site to see it the same way you envisioned it, then you take the time to patch for inferior rendering engines.

 
 
The Firefox “web developer toolbar plugins” are the main reason I use their browser for development.
 
I do web design work for a guy that delights in “Spotting the difference” in IE6 and Safari.
The stuff I do is relatively simple. I find that if I am careful with using the HTML/CSS padding then the difference between browsers is negligible.
 
BTW, I was quietly confident with my code until I ran it through
 
 http://www.totalvalidator.com/index.html.
 
 
 

It’s better to run it through the w3c validators though, you can use the “valid” logo image on the page then 😉 and if it gets too much of a pain to get it to look right in both IE and standard compliant browsers you can use the IE conditional statements to load other more suitable stylesheets.

<link href="/css/default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<!--[if IE 6]><link href="/css/default.ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><link href="/css/default.ie7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->

I haven’t used IE in years, even in my school we use FF.

I’ve used FF for over a year, I love it 😊

ie6: for how web-sites look like
ff: only for firebug
opera: for surfing all the time

Safari on Mac, Used IE7 on windows for a bit, not as bad as some people may describe it but - Its not nearly as good as Firefox or Safari.

I actually have IE8 now on my PC, but I rarely use it.  I mostly use Firefox for work related tacks and I really like Google Chrome for my personal stuff..The only reason I use any sort of internet explorer is purely for research, nothing more…