Comments on: Internet Explorer and CSS Border-radius: Adapt or Die

By: Peter Scott

Peter Scott — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:20:29 +0000

It’s always so nice to read something intelligent about something stupid like Internet Explorer.

Just a small pedantic critique regarding the article. It’s absolutely fine, and in fact more correct, to use the word “use” in writing—and speaking for that matter—than to utilize “utilize” which makes for clunky sentences.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:58:55 +0000

It is about time, that someone sues Microsoft, for their negligence.
That would result in Internet Explorer passing the most stringent Acid-tests within a few weeks if not days or bMS going bust. Just consider the number of web-developers, both small (many millions) and large, who would join in the class-suit.
MS dispises its users! When installing IE, it does not even ask the user, if he would like to specify the installation-folder. And if the user moves it to one, which suits its folder-structure, IE will MS will install IE again and again.
But its younger rivel, Google’s Chrome is even worse in this aspekt: neither does it ask for the destination, nor install it in the standard Program-Files folder, but in the “Documents and Settings”, where noone would suspekt it.
I ask: What do they think? Who owns the PC the user or they? The user has a right to decide where to install a program. He may not want to use this right, but the choice must be his.
A web-developer may want to have a number of older versions on his PC, just to check the compatibility, but these “big boys”, ignore this.
The answer: as long as they do not allow the user to specify the installation-folder, and as long as they refuse to conform with the standards, the should be prohibited in all large organization. But exactly these are the ones, who keep IE as their only browser, instead of switching to one, which conforms to all standards

Stephan de Rakovszky
Rako DP Enterprises

By: Matthew Jordan

Matthew Jordan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:41:08 +0000

Amen. I stand whole hearted behind this. It has become a ridiculous scene with browsers and internet explorer. We all have to get with the game plan to move forward and create some standards in software, funny that the protocols are standard and work very well while the software on top of it is out of control and thus over produce into the ground. As for the people who would reply that standardizing software and platforms on top, most of it is free now, so there is no money to be made, the money is in the service, skill and creativity now and not the creation anymore.