4 ms·
Maybe I'll stop hating Internet Explorer quite so vehemently if they do these things: 1. Faster Javascript. This looks like the main point of IE 9, so apparent
by sketerpot 17y ago
Maybe I'll stop hating Internet Explorer quite so vehemently if they do these things:
1. Faster Javascript. This looks like the main point of IE 9, so apparently we won't be waiting much longer for this one.
2. SVG support. Every other browser does this; why not IE? There's so much cool stuff we could do with SVG if only IE didn't hold us back.
3. How about some HTML5 canvas support? Canvas is a nice, straightforward API, and it's all sorts of useful. But as usual, IE strangles progress.
As a user, I can just ignore IE. But as a web developer, I absolutely loathe it for making everybody jump through hoops to support it, and for holding back SVG and canvas.
- Periodic 17y agoIt's as the author says: IE glady rides the backseat in standards, and it’s making my life terrible. In the inverse of your problem, I often have to interface with enterprise web applications and help some of our other staff with them. They are only approved to work on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 6 (though I think many have finally moved to IE7 as a supported platform). This causes all sorts of headaches for my Linux users when we have to access the financial system or report time and leave. There was a period of about 6 months where I was logging into the one Windows computer in my group to report vacation because it was the only one with the right version of Java and IE to get it to work.
- xal 17y agoDid you have any success with suggesting Chrome Frame?